Awake, Asleep, Adult, Child: An A-humanist Account of Persons

Laryngeal mask airway Supreme for asleep-awake-asleep craniotomy.

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All Asleep—But Inhibition Is Wide Awake

Depending on the arousal state, neuronal networks display discrete activity patterns that profoundly affect information processing in the brain. In this issue of Neuron, Kurotani et al. report bidirectional modification of inhibition by oscillatory patterns in the neocortex; a mechanism likely to control the impact of these neurons in a state-dependent fashion.

Breathing pattern awake and asleep in patients with myotonic dystrophy.

Patients with myotonic dystrophy often have an irregular pattern of breathing at rest, implying abnormality of breathing control. No central medullary defect has been found in such patients. We postulated that irregular breathing in myotonic dystrophy due to abnormal central respiratory output would persist during slow-wave sleep. We examined the patterns of breathing whilst awake and asleep in...

Awake vs. asleep placement of spinal cord stimulators: a cohort analysis of complications associated with placement.

INTRODUCTION Patients will typically undergo awake surgery for permanent implantation of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in an attempt to optimize electrode placement using patient feedback about the distribution of stimulation-induced paresthesia. The present study compared efficacy of first-time electrode placement under awake conditions with that of neurophysiologically guided placement under ...

An Account of a Child Born without Organs of Generation