Subconscious Auditory Processing in Anesthesia: the Common Theme between Dreams, Implicit Memory and Anesthesia Awareness

Volume 12 No 4 (2014)

Yushuang Zhong and Ravi Prakash

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2014.12.4.752

Abstract

The fact that auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) have been used widely as a measure of the depth of anesthesia highlights the importance of auditory modality in consciousness-related neural processing during anesthesia, a phenomena more specifically known as Intra-operative awareness (IOA). The phenomena of IOA has seldom been observed from the perspective of consciousness itself.

Keywords

subconsciousness, anesthesia, auditory processing, altered state of consciousness, intra-operative awareness, mid-latency auditory evoked potentials

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