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General Anesthesia

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Cerebral Energy Metabolism and Metabolic Encephalopathy

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Neural function is coupled to energy metabolism. Understanding the anatomical and chemical basis of signal conduction in nerve fibers is an area of great scientific accomplishment and intensive ongoing research. Relationships between energy metabolism and different behavioral states is enormously more complicated because of the complex neuroanatomical basis of mental function. Anesthesia is a clinically important mental state or condition, which is analyzed from the perspective of energy metabolism in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 77025, USA

    Richard C. Wiggins

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    David W. McCandless

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Wiggins, R.C. (1985). General Anesthesia. In: McCandless, D.W. (eds) Cerebral Energy Metabolism and Metabolic Encephalopathy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1209-3_18

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