Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.

Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Computational Neuroscience Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I will describe how anesthetics act in the brain to create altered states of arousal by altering the dynamics in neural circuits (extracellular currents). I will describe these dynamics first for adults then I will describe how they differ in children of different age groups.