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Y_1_13 — Xenon Gas and Nitrous Oxide: Anesthetic Gases as Consciousness Probes
Nitrous oxide (N₂O — "laughing gas") and xenon (Xe — a noble gas) are two anesthetic gases that have served as remarkable probes of consciousness — revealing how the manipulation of a single molecule or atom can dissolve
Y_1_11 — Ketamine: Dissociative Anesthetic and Consciousness Explorer
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic — first synthesized by Calvin Stevens in 1962 and introduced into clinical use by Edward Domino and Guenter Corssen (1966) — that has undergone a remarkable transformation from battl
K_3_04 — Anesthesia and Consciousness
General anesthesia — the reversible, drug-induced abolition of consciousness — is one of medicine's greatest achievements and, paradoxically, one of its least understood. Approximately 350 million surgical procedures per
Y_2_08 — Anesthesia, Consciousness, and Awareness
General anesthesia — the pharmacological induction of unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and immobility — is one of the most profound alterations of consciousness that humans routinely produce, yet how anesthetics actu
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