Anesthesia: States Of Consciousness

WUOT | By Chrissy Keuper

Published November 18, 2014 at 4:57 AM EST

Our brains undergo all kinds of states of consciousness... But how? And what are those states?

Helen Baghdoyan (Beaman Professor) and Ralph Lydic (Robert H. Cole Endowed Professor of Neuroscience) teach Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Tennessee. They spoke with WUOT’sChrissyKeuper about their research on how the brain regulates various states of consciousness, and how anesthesia actually works…

Chrissy Keuper

Chrissy served as WUOT's News Director and host of monthly public affairs talk show Dialogue from late 2021 to early 2023. Her first job with the station was as weekend student announcer while earning her bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee. She had previously been the station's local host for NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered news programs; occasionally filled in as host for WUOT's Morning and Afternoon Concerts; and won multiple awards for her interviews, feature stories, and Dialogue.

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