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Brain responses during anesthesia mimic those during natural deep sleep

February 1, 2010 by

The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep -- lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.

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