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Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness

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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Subject	Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness
Date	2015-09-06 17:20 -0500
Message-ID	<BpidnWEcQIjeIXHInZ2dnUU7-cednZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness
> http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/85

> Entering anesthesia, the mind seems to shut down abruptly and then
> later re-emerge from the blackness with equal swiftness. A new
> theoretical model suggests that these changes may result from a
> sudden, global change in the ability of the network of neurons to
> transmit information. The model can reproduce the changes in
> electrical activity (“brain waves”) seen with anesthetized patients.
> The researchers say that their theory could provide a simple
> foundation for understanding how the brain acquires its conscious
> cognitive functions.

   There is every reason to believe this is valid for jimp's brain too.




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Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 17:20 -0500
  Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-06 22:42 +0000
    Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 18:38 -0500
      Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 00:30 +0000
        Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 20:04 -0500
          Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 01:28 +0000
            Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 20:57 -0500
              Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 03:20 +0000
                Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 11:53 -0500
                Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 17:03 +0000
                Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 12:25 -0500
                Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 17:52 +0000
  Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-09-07 13:35 -0400

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