Involvement of the parabrachial nucleus in emergence from general anesthesia

Jia Li, Qiuyu Zhu, Jiaxin Xiang, Yiyong Wei, Donghang Zhang · 2024

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Jia Li and co-authors reviewed work in 2024 on a small brain area and waking from general anaesthesia. The area, in the upper brain stem, helps with sensing, feeding, fear, and sleep-wake cycles. Sleep and anaesthesia share a loss of awareness that can be reversed.

Recent studies test whether this brain area helps a subject wake after drugs that cause full sleep-like states. Results differ by drug type and by how long the drug is given. The review sums up the proof on each side and notes where studies clash. It gives readers a clear base for further work on how waking is controlled.

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CREATORJia Li, Qiuyu Zhu, Jiaxin Xiang, Yiyong Wei, Donghang Zhang
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE22 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11668774

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