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Cerebral Mechanisms of Analgesia and Anesthesia in Humans Elucidated by In Vivo Brain Imaging

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Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia

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Although general anesthetics and opioids have been extensively used in human medicine, the neural mechanisms involved in their mechanism of action remains largely unresolved.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA

    Joseph F. Antognini MD

  2. Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA

    Earl Carstens PhD

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Douglas E. Raines MD

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Gyulai, F., Firestone, L. (2003). Cerebral Mechanisms of Analgesia and Anesthesia in Humans Elucidated by In Vivo Brain Imaging. In: Antognini, J.F., Carstens, E., Raines, D.E. (eds) Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-322-4_7

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