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SUBMITTER: Stephen EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426927 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stephen Emily P EP Hotan Gladia C GC Pierce Eric T ET Harrell P Grace PG Walsh John L JL Brown Emery N EN Purdon Patrick L PL
Scientific reports 20200813 1
A controversy has developed in recent years over the roles of frontal and posterior cortices in mediating consciousness and unconsciousness. Disruption of posterior cortex during sleep appears to suppress the contents of dreaming, yet activation of frontal cortex appears necessary for perception and can reverse unconsciousness under anesthesia. We used anesthesia to study how regional cortical disruption, mediated by slow wave modulation of broadband activity, changes during unconsciousness in h ...[more]