General hospital of southern theater command, PLA
Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China
Location status: Recruiting
NCT Number: NCT07145697
In the field of general anesthesia research, the neural mechanism underlying the loss of consciousness has long been a highly core issue. It remains unclear what consciousness is and how it emerges from brain activity. By studying anesthesia and sleep, the investigators aim to reveal what happens in the brain when consciousness is lost and when it returns.
Dexmedetomidine, a widely used drug in clinical anesthetic practice, plays an important role in the anesthetic process due to its unique pharmacological properties. It hardly causes respiratory depression during the sedative and hypnotic process, which makes it occupy an important position in clinical anesthetic regimens.
The emergence of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) technology has brought new opportunities for research on anesthesia mechanisms. Compared with traditional electroencephalographic (EEG), SEEG can directly penetrate into deep brain structures to record electrical activities, enabling precise localization of brain regions closely related to consciousness regulation.
At present, although there have been some studies on the effects of dexmedetomidine on EEG activities, there are still many deficiencies. Most studies have focused on simple spectral analysis of EEG signals or observations of limited brain regions, lacking comprehensive multi-dimensional research on functional connectivity between brain regions, microstates, and complexity. Through monitoring key brain regions, the SEEG technology can obtain more targeted and accurate information, thereby providing strong support for comprehensively revealing the neural mechanisms of dexmedetomidine-induced loss of consciousness.
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All sexes
Interventional
Phase 4
Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China
Location status: Recruiting
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
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Escalating concentrations until loss of responsiveness
Time frame: After the patient has completed the monitoring of epileptic seizures due to clinical needs, they can participate in this test. Through test completion, an average of 3 hours.
Time frame: through test completion, an average of 3 hours
permutation mutual information (PMI); stereo-electroencephalography assessment parameter
Time frame: through test completion, an average of 3 hours
examined by permutation entropy (PE); stereo-electroencephalography assessment parameter
Time frame: through test completion, an average of3 hours.
PAC is used to illuminate cross-frequency coordination in neurophysiological activity of electroencephalogram. stereo-electroencephalography assessment parameter
Time frame: through test completion, an average of 3 hours
symbolic conditional mutual information (SCMI) and directionality index (DI); stereo-electroencephalography assessment parameter
Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command
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