General anesthesia research: aroused from a deep sleep?
Neil L. Harrison
The author is Professor and Director, C.V. Starr Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. neh2001@mail.med.cornell.edu
A region of the hypothalamus that is critical in controlling sleep/wake states is now shown to mediate the sedative effects of anesthetics that act at the GABAA receptor.
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