Intraoperative awareness with explicit recall occurs in 1 to 2 cases per thousand
and is linked to the neuroscientific problem of consciousness.
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Funding sources: Dr Teig—none; Dr Hudetz is supported by the National Institutes of Health, RO1GM56398; Dr Mashour is supported by National Institutes of Health, RO1GM098578.
Conflict of interest: Dr Teig—none; Dr Hudetz—none; Dr Mashour—holds a provisional patent on the use of directional connectivity for brain monitoring.
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