Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia
Although anesthetics have been used successfully for over 150 years, their mechanisms of action are little understood, a fact that significantly limits our ability to design new and safer agents. In Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia, leading investigators critically evaluate the latest information on...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: | Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- 1 The Development of Concepts of Mechanisms of Anesthesia
- II. Anesthesia, Consciousness, and Memory
- 2 Mechanisms of Consciousness with Emphasis on the Cerebral Cortical Component
- 3 Anesthesia Meets Memory: Tools for Critical Appraisal
- III. Sleep, Coma, and Anesthesia—Similarities and Differences
- 4 Sleep and Anesthesia
- 5 Possible Relationships of Anesthetic Coma and Pathological Disorders of Consciousness
- IV. Neural Mechanisms
- 6 Cerebral Cortex—Anesthetic Action on the Electroencephalogram: Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms and Clinical Monitoring
- 7 Cerebral Mechanisms of Analgesia and Anesthesia in Humans Elucidated by In Vivo Brain Imaging
- 8 Thalamus
- 9 The Hippocampus
- 10 Anesthetic Effects on the Reticular Formation, Brainstem and Central Nervous System Arousal
- 11 Anesthesia, the Spinal Cord and Motor Responses to Noxious Stimulation
- 12 Spinal Cord—Dorsal Horn
- 13 Spinal Cord: Anesthetic Actions on Motor Neurons
- 14 Simple Genetic Models for Anesthetic Action
- 15 Genetic Dissection of Anesthetic Action
- V. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
- 16 General Anesthetic Effects on GABAA Receptors
- 17 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Anesthetics
- 18 Actions of General Anesthetic on Voltage-Gated Ion Channels
- 19 Glutamate Receptors: Physiology and Anesthetic Pharmacology
- 20 General Anesthetic Effects on Glycine Receptors
- 21 Presynaptic Actions of General Anesthetics
- 22 The Meyer-Overton Relationship and Its Exceptions
- 23 Protein Models
- 24 The Opioid Receptors
- 25 Local Anesthetics
- 26 Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and General Anesthesia
- VI. Future Research
- 27 The Future of Anesthetic Mechanisms Research