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Anesthetic Pharmacology Preclinical Pharmacology

Daniel I. Sessler, MD† BACKGROUND: In previous studies, we showed that failure to respond to automated responsiveness monitor (ARM) precedes potentially serious sedationrelated adversities associated with loss of responsiveness, and that the ARM was not susceptible to false-positive responses. It remains unknown, however, whether loss and return of response to the ARM occur at similar sedation ...

Pharmacology.

A very able review of the present status of the pharmacology of cannabis, active substances and synthetic derivatives, has been given by S. Loewe. In conjunction with other recognized American investigators, Roger Adams, E. J. Wollner, et al., he has himself made important contributions to this subject. The large number of animals at his disposal, for example, 2600 experiments carried out on 15...

Now you feel it, now you don't.

Recent studies have reported that in normal healthy individuals, the perception of illusory sensations in one modality can be induced by the presentation of a stimulus in another modality. These illusory sensations may arise from the activation of a tactile representation in memory induced by the non-target stimulus, in a process mirroring that thought to be responsible for many forms of medica...

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Now You C It. Now You Don't!

Currently, much of the software that we would like to run fast on multi-core processors is written in C — a language in which expressing concurrency is difficult and error prone. Unfortunately, moving such programs to a new language is very difficult, since the programmers only know C, the tools only know C, and developers are unkeen to trust their projects to a language that might not be suppo...