“…This shift is thought to be due to an increase in cortical synchrony, appears with loss of consciousness, and reverses with recovery of consciousness ( Akeju et al., 2014a ; Civillico and Contreras, 2012 ; Dasilva et al., 2021 ; Harvey et al., 2012 ; Hudetz, 2002 ; Lee et al., 2020 ; Purdon et al., 2013 ). Other effects on cortical neurons common to several general anesthetics include burst suppression ( Akrawi et al., 1996 ; Clark and Rosner, 1973 ), fragmentation ( Erchova et al., 2002 ; Lewis et al., 2012 ; Vizuete et al., 2014 ), decreases in activity ( Bastos et al., 2021 ; Hudetz et al., 2009 ; Kajiwara et al., 2020 ; Redinbaugh et al., 2020 ), and increases in correlation with the average local activity ( Aasebø et al., 2017 ; Lee et al., 2021 ). In addition to these effects, both cortico-cortical and cortico-thalamic disconnections of the resting state network have also been observed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during states of unconsciousness ( Akeju et al., 2014b ; Mashour and Hudetz, 2018 ; Uhrig et al., 2018 ).…”