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Building on their known ability to influence sleep and arousal, Li and colleagues show that modulating the activity of glutamatergic pedunculopontine tegmental neurones also alters sevoflurane-induced hypnosis. This finding adds support for the shared sleep-anaesthesia circuit hypothesis. However, the expanding recognition of many neuronal clusters capable of modulating anaesthetic hypnosis raises the question of how disparate and anatomically distant sites ultimately interact to coordinate global changes in the state of the brain. Understanding how these individual sites work in concert to disrupt cognition and behaviour is the next challenge for anaesthetic mechanisms research.
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