Ask Mark 2.13 - Deep anaesthesia and the mind
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-10-07

Ask Mark 2.13 - Deep anaesthesia and the mind

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: I would love you to address the role of deep anaesthesia and the mind; and how the states of consciousness can be controlled by the means of chemicals and then reversed. Also what has been learned from it when a state of almost ‘brainstem death’ has been achieved?