Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 Nov;22(11):961-962. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.07.016. Epub 2018 Aug 10.
General anesthesia provides an invaluable experimental tool to probe the essential neural circuits that underlie consciousness. A new study reports that cholinergic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex restores wake-like behaviors in anesthetized rodents, suggesting that cholinergic inputs to the prefrontal cortex play a fundamental role in modulating consciousness.
全身麻醉为探究意识的基本神经回路提供了一个非常有价值的实验工具。一项新的研究报告称,刺激前额叶皮层的胆碱能可恢复麻醉状态下啮齿动物的觉醒样行为,这表明前额叶皮层的胆碱能输入在调节意识方面起着基础性作用。