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Dynamic Reconfiguration, Fragmentation, and Integration of Whole-Brain Modular Structure across Depths of Unconsciousness

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2019
General anesthetics are routinely used to induce unconsciousness, and much is known about their effects on receptor function and single neuron activity. Much less is known about how these local effects are manifest at the whole-brain level, nor how they ...
D. Standage   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Take My Breath Away: Competing Contexts Between Domestic Violence, Kink and The Criminal Justice System in R. v. J.A.

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2016
In the R. v. J.A. case, a man was criminally convicted for performing sexual activities on his partner while she was rendered unconscious through erotic asphyxiation.
Ummni Khan
doaj  

Indicators used in livestock to assess unconsciousness after stunning: a review

open access: yesAnimal, 2015
Assessing unconsciousness is important to safeguard animal welfare shortly after stunning at the slaughter plant. Indicators that can be visually evaluated are most often used when assessing unconsciousness, as they can be easily applied in slaughter ...
M.T.W. Verhoeven   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traumatic Brain Injury: The Signature Wound of the Iraq War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, is the signature wound of the Iraq War. It can be caused by bullets or shrapnel hitting the head or neck, but also by the blast injuries that often result from mortar attacks or roadside bombs.
Vanessa Williamson
core  

Outcomes following childhood head injury : a population study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Objectives: To identify outcomes following head injury (HI) amongst a population of children admitted to one hospital centre and compare outcomes between different severity groups. Methods:A postal follow-up of children admitted with HI to one NHS Trust,
Hawley, Carol   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Prolonged unconsciousness in perampanel overdose

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2019
Clinical experience of perampanel overdoses is markedly limited and the relevant literature is sparse. Perampanel is a novel antiepileptic drug (an amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazlepropionic acid glutamate receptor antagonist) with a long half-life ...
G. Parsons   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spin-Mediated Consciousness Theory: An Approach Based On Pan-Protopsychism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
As an alternative to our original dualistic approach, we present here our spin-mediated consciousness theory based on pan-protopsychism. We postulate that consciousness is intrinsically connected to quantum mechanical spin since said spin is embedded in ...
Hu, Huping, Wu, Maoxin
core  

Functional and Topological Conditions for Explosive Synchronization Develop in Human Brain Networks with the Onset of Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness

open access: yesFrontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2016
Sleep, anesthesia, and coma share a number of neural features but the recovery profiles are radically different. To understand the mechanisms of reversibility of unconsciousness at the network level, we studied the conditions for gradual and abrupt ...
Minkyung Kim   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prescribing competence: The pros and cons of different methods for assessment

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Evaluating a medical graduate’s competence in rational prescribing is challenging. With the aim to guide and inspire teachers, this narrative review explores different methods that can be used to assess prescribing competence. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and thus a mix of different assessment methods is needed throughout the ...
David J. Brinkman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of traumatic brain injury amongst children admitted to hospital in one health district : a population-based study [PDF]

open access: yes
There is a dearth of information regarding the prevalence of brain injury, serious enough to require hospital admission, amongst children in the United Kingdom.
Hawley, Carol   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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