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the latest discovery of neuroscientists may interest you.
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"This model also takes advantage of the odd effect that anesthesiologists call paradoxical excitation. When patients are given a very low dose of anesthesia, the brain gets excited, more active, rather than being suppressed. Schiff thinks a similar mechanism might underlie something that happens for some patients with brain injury: When they are given a low dose of zolpidem, a drug used to induce sleep, they instead increase in responsiveness and level of consciousness."
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