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Anesthesia: States Of Consciousness

http://www.gloucestercitynews.net/.a/6a00d8341bf7d953ef01a73dc49156970d-800wi

Our brains undergo all kinds of states of consciousness... But how? And what are those states? 

Helen Baghdoyan (Beaman Professor) and Ralph Lydic (Robert H. Cole Endowed Professor of Neuroscience) teach Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Tennessee. They spoke with WUOT’sChrissyKeuper about their research on how the brain regulates various states of consciousness, and how anesthesia actually works…