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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:25 pm
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the latest discovery of neuroscientists may interest you.
an extract from the same...
V T Yekkirala
"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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http://dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=40620
Unlocking the Mystery of Consciousness
the latest discovery of neuroscientists may interest you.
an extract from the same...
V T Yekkirala
"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."
for fulltext, click on
http://dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=40620
Unlocking the Mystery of Consciousness