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He can be reached on his self-titled site, Edward R. Mariano, M. CSA News All news. Natural sleep vs. In a recent article published in Frontiers in Psychology , Drs. Akshay Shanker and Emery Brown explain brain wave patterns found in patients under general anesthesia. They are similar to those of critically ill patients who fall into a coma, have a dangerously low body temperature, or suffer from other serious diseases. Under anesthesia, patients do not dream. It is thought that a dreaming person, for example, is partly conscious , he said.
In a second experiment that was also published in the first study, the researchers played unpleasant sounds while the participants were under anesthesia. Once the participants were awake, the researchers had them listen to more unpleasant sounds — some of which had been played to them while under anesthesia.
Again, this suggests the brain is somehow processing these sounds, even while under anesthesia, Scheinin said. The second study focused on the results of yet another experiment done when the participants were under anesthesia. In this experiment, the participants were played a recording of regular sentences that ended with a really bizarre word — one that clearly didn't belong in the sentence, such as "The bear walks on the moon" instead of "The bear walks in the forest. When people are awake, hearing that unexpected word usually causes a greater response in brain activity than an expected word would, Scheinin told Live Science.
The researchers found that when the people were under anesthesia, however, their brain activity looked the same, regardless of which type of sentence was played — in other words, their brains couldn't tell the difference between normal and weird sentences. But curiously, in the people given dexmedetomidine, the researchers observed a spike in brain activity that coincided with the end of the sentences.
Scheinin said that he thinks that both types of words — normal and bizarre — might have triggered this spike because the brain might lose context or expectations while under anesthesia. For example, it may be that the people under anesthesia can't remember the beginning of the sentence by the time they hear the end, or they can't integrate the words into sentence form, he said.
But the spike in activity at the end of the sentences suggests that they are still hearing and processing the sentences.
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