Abstract
Although general anesthetics and opioids have been extensively used in human medicine, the neural mechanisms involved in their mechanism of action remains largely unresolved.
Keywords
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Nitrous Oxide
- Anterior Cingulate Cortex
- Receptor Occupancy
- Volatile Anesthetic
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Gyulai, F., Firestone, L. (2003). Cerebral Mechanisms of Analgesia and Anesthesia in Humans Elucidated by In Vivo Brain Imaging. 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_7
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