edited by C Jordan (Imperial College School of Medicine), D J A Vaughan (Imperial College School of Medicine), & D E F Newton (Imperial College School of Medicine)

Whilst the incidence of memory and awareness in anaesthesia appears not to be on the increase, the phenomenon is receiving growing attention from patients, anaesthetists, researchers and, of course, the media. This volume brings together recent advances in the wide-ranging area of research into this multi-faceted phenomenon. It is divided into four sections: monitoring depth of anaesthesia, learning and memory in anaesthesia, clinical measurement and brain function during anaesthesia, and awareness and psychological consequences of awareness during anaesthesia.

• Awareness During General Anaesthesia — What Are We Monitoring? (J G Jones)
• Facial Electromyography Using “FACE”: Logic, Neurophysiology and Clinical Utility (H L Bennett)
• Inside the Bispectral Index (I J Rampil)
• Detection and Quantification of Phasecoupling in Anaesthesia-EEG by Bicoherence Spectral Analysis (W Nahm et al.)
• Quantitative EEG Assessment of Changes in the Level of Sedation/Hypnosis During Surgery Under General Anaesthesia (L S Prichep et al.)
• Automatic Analysis of Auditory Evoked Potentials by Means of Wavelet Analysis (G Stockmanns et al.)
• The Contribution of Surgery to Learning and Memory in Anaesthesia (J Andrade et al.)
• Effect of Midazolam on Memory for an Aversive Event: Sedative, Affective or Mnemonic Processes? (L Pain et al.)
• The Effects of Trauma on Memory: Implications for Awareness Under Anaesthesia (B A van der Kolk & J E Osterman)
• Mechanisms and Sites of Action of General Anaesthetics (I J Rampil)
• Conscious Sedation with Propofol: Preliminary Observations Using Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging (R A Veselis et al.)
• Evoked Potentials to Complex “Musical” Tones and the Importance of Chronometry for Consciousness and Awareness (S J Jones)
• A Randomised, Double Blind Investigation of Postoperative Memory for Information Presented Intraoperatively During Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (I F Russell & M Wang)
• Asymmetric Dose-Related Effects of Midazolam on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (R A Veselis et al.)
• The Psychological Consequences of Awareness During Surgery (M Wang)
• and other papers