Brain Region Linkage Offers Method To Measure Consciousness For Surgery

What Anesthesia Can Teach Us About Consciousness by Maggie Koerth-Baker.  The New York Times.  December 10, 2013.

(1)  Successful anesthetization requires _______________, and ___________ isn't something we can measure.

(2)  What are two barriers to avoiding anesthesia awareness?

(3)  Lacking a direct measure for consciousness, anesthesiologist monitor for ___________.

(4)  Studies are increasingly finding that sensory networks in the brain remain locally functional
for _____________ but ____________ communication has broken down.

(5)  This finding suggest that anesthetics work best when different parts of the brain _____________.

(6)  While you need a brain to have ___________, you might not need a brain to _______________  
perhaps because pain response is a ___________ reflex.

(7)  Mashour's research suggest that anesthesia monitors might be more effective if they monitor how electrical signals _____________.