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Probing the Mind: Anesthesia and Neuroimaging
Author(s) -
Alkire MT
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.2008.75
Subject(s) - neuroimaging , anesthetic , consciousness , cognition , neural correlates of consciousness , neuroscience , functional neuroimaging , anesthesia , psychology , medicine , cognitive science
In 1947, a second power of anesthesia was described: “With anesthetic agents we seem to have a tool for producing and holding at will, and at little risk, different levels of consciousness—a tool that promises to be of great help in studies of mental phenomena.” 1 In 1995, anesthetic manipulation was coupled with neuroimaging, 2 paving the way for detailed assessments of the relationship between the structure and the functioning of the brain. 3 Anesthesia combined with neuroimaging thus provides a unique tool for investigating the neural correlates of human cognition. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2008); 84 , 1, 149–152 doi: 10.1038/clpt.2008.75