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Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness

Subject	Re: Focus: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness
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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date	2015-09-06 20:57 -0500
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On 9/6/15 8:28 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>
> Hey spamming piece of shit, anesthesia is medicine or biology, you
> cat and paste piece of shit.
>


   Well, you know the old saying, jimp. Build a man a fire, and he'll
   be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest
   of his life.  --Terry Pratchett

   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.


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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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