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Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia pp 449–453Cite as

The Future of Anesthetic Mechanisms Research

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This book began first describing what anesthesia is and is not, and then followed with the history of how prior researchers explored the mechanisms of anesthesia. We end the book with a look forward to what might occur in the future of research into anesthetic mechanism.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA

    Joseph F. Antognini MD

  2. Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA

    Earl Carstens PhD

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Douglas E. Raines MD

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Antognini, J.F., Raines, D.E., Carstens, E. (2003). The Future of Anesthetic Mechanisms Research. In: Antognini, J.F., Carstens, E., Raines, D.E. (eds) Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-322-4_27

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