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The Mind Numbing Medicine

Curious Cases

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Is It Possible to Score Levels of Consciousness?

Is it possible to score levels of consciousness? Is there a metric? How do we know how conscious one is? There are a number of metrics. A new approach that's been pioneered for the last 20 years or so has been measuring levels of brain complexity. And this number seems to be able to track conscious level, both in anesthesia, but also in sleep and after brain injury and many other conditions too.

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