Rashmi N. Mueller

This study records single neuron activity in humans during emergence from propofol anesthesia, showing increased firing rates and shifts in brain activity patterns in medial temporal regions before motor response to verbal command.

This study compares brain activity during dexmedetomidine and propofol anesthesia to natural sleep using iEEG, finding dexmedetomidine more similar to sleep in certain metrics.

The paper identifies common neural signatures of consciousness loss and recovery during sleep and anesthesia using intracranial EEG and diffusion map embedding.