Electroanesthesia and some thalamic evoked responses
Eustace F. G. Douglas, Sanford J. Larson, Anthony Sances, Jr. · 1967
Electroanesthesia reduced and then eliminated thalamic evoked potentials in monkeys at currents sufficient for surgical anesthesia.
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Researchers implanted chronic bipolar electrodes in the centre median and ventralis anterior thalamic nuclei of squirrel and stump-tail Macaque monkeys. They applied rectangular current pulses of 70 Hz and 3 ms duration between the inion and nasion to induce electroanesthesia. As current intensity increased, the amplitude of depth evoked potentials decreased gradually and disappeared at anesthesia levels sufficient for surgery. Peripheral sensory responses were similarly depressed, and cross-thalamic responses vanished when surface responses disappeared.
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@article{electroanesthesia_and_some_thalamic_evoked_responses_g5751,
author = {Eustace F. G. Douglas and Sanford J. Larson and Anthony Sances and Jr.},
title = {Electroanesthesia and some thalamic evoked responses},
year = {1967},
}