Article Information
- Received September 29, 2011
- Revision received January 25, 2012
- Accepted February 16, 2012
- First published April 4, 2012.
- Version of record published April 4, 2012.
Author Information
- Jaakko W. Långsjö1,2,*,
- Michael T. Alkire3,*,
- Kimmo Kaskinoro4,
- Hiroki Hayama3,
- Anu Maksimow4,
- Kaike K. Kaisti1,
- Sargo Aalto1,
- Riku Aantaa4,
- Satu K. Jääskeläinen5,
- Antti Revonsuo6, and
- Harry Scheinin1,7,8
- 1Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, FI-20521 Turku, Finland,
- 2Department of Anesthesiology, Seinäjoki Central Hospital, 60220 Seinäjoki, Finland,
- 3VA Long Beach Healthcare system (Long Beach, California, 90822), Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California-Irvine, California 92868,
- 4Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care, and Pain Medicine, Turku University Hospital, FI-20521 Turku, Finland,
- 5Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Turku University Hospital, FI-20521 Turku, Finland,
- 6Department of Psychology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland and School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,
- 7Department of Pharmacology, Drug Development and Therapeutics, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland,
- 8Pulssi Medical Centre, 20100 Turku, Finland
Author contributions
Author contributions: J.W.L., K.K., A.M., K.K.K., R.A., S.K.J., and H.S. designed research; J.W.L., K.K., A.M., K.K.K., and H.S. performed research; M.T.A., H.H., and S.A. analyzed data; J.W.L., M.T.A., A.R., and H.S. wrote the paper.
↵*J.W.L. and M.T.A. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received September 29, 2011.
- Revision received January 25, 2012.
- Accepted February 16, 2012.
This work was funded by the Academy of Finland (Research Programme on Neuroscience, NEURO, project no. 8111818), Turku University Hospital EVO-Grant no. 13323, Seinäjoki Central Hospital EVO-Grant no. 1133, The Finnish Medical Foundation, and The Paulo Foundation. Presented in part at the American Society of Anesthesiologist's annual meeting, Best abstracts of the meeting session, October 16–20, 2010, San Diego, California.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Harry Scheinin, Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, P.O. Box 52, FI-20521 Turku, Finland. harry.scheinin{at}utu.fi