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James W. Sleigh is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with a significant interest in anesthesiology and pain medicine. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics covered in their research include anesthesia and sedative agents, treatment of major depression, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques, anesthesia and neurotoxicity research, and intensive care unit cognitive disorders.

The scientist has published research in a variety of journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Anesthesiology
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Molecules
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Pain Research

Recent papers authored by James W. Sleigh include:

  • Spectral and Entropic Features Are Altered by Age in the Electroencephalogram in Patients under Sevoflurane Anesthesia (2020, Anesthesiology)
  • Effects of Noxious Stimulation on the Electroencephalogram during General Anaesthesia: A Narrative Review and Approach to Analgesic Titration (2021, British Journal of Anaesthesia)
  • Structure-Activity Relationships for the Anaesthetic and Analgaesic Properties of Aromatic Ring-Substituted Ketamine Esters (2020, Molecules)
  • Analysis of the Hindriks and van Putten Model for Propofol Anesthesia: Limitations and Extensions (2020, NeuroImage)
  • Non-NMDA Mechanisms of Analgesia in Ketamine Analogs (2022, Frontiers in Pain Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James W. Sleigh include:

  • Matthias Kreuzer
  • Darren Hight
  • Paul S. García
  • Martyn Harvey
  • Logan J. Voss

Best Publications

  • Unresponsiveness ≠ Unconsciousness

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  • Permutation entropy of the electroencephalogram: a measure of anaesthetic drug effect

    E Olofsen;James Sleigh;A Dahan

  • EEG entropy measures in anesthesia

    Zhenhu Liang;Yinghua Wang;Xue Sun;Duan Li

  • The bispectral index: a measure of depth of sleep?

    James W. Sleigh;John Andrzejowski;D. Alistair Steyn-Ross;Moira L. Steyn-Ross

  • Psychosocial functioning during the year following severe traumatic brain injury

    Denyse A. Kersel;Nigel V. Marsh;Jack H. Havill;James W. Sleigh

  • The howling cortex: seizures and general anesthetic drugs.

    Logan J Voss;James W Sleigh;John P M Barnard;Heidi E Kirsch

  • The Bispectral Index

    James W. Sleigh;John Andrzejowski;Alistair Steyn-Ross;Moira Steyn-Ross

  • Theoretical electroencephalogram stationary spectrum for a white-noise-driven cortex: evidence for a general anesthetic-induced phase transition.

    Moira L. Steyn-Ross;D. A. Steyn-Ross;J. W. Sleigh;D. T. J. Liley

  • Caregiver burden during the year following severe traumatic brain injury.

    Nigel V. Marsh;Denyse A. Kersel;Jack H. Havill;James W. Sleigh

  • Association of electroencephalogram trajectories during emergence from anaesthesia with delirium in the postanaesthesia care unit: an early sign of postoperative complications.

    S. Hesse;S. Hesse;M. Kreuzer;M. Kreuzer;M. Kreuzer;D. Hight;A. Gaskell

  • Multiscale permutation entropy analysis of EEG recordings during sevoflurane anesthesia

    Duan Li;Xiaoli Li;Zhenhu Liang;Logan J Voss

  • Modelling general anaesthesia as a first-order phase transition in the cortex

    Moira L. Steyn-Ross;D.A. Steyn-Ross;J.W. Sleigh

  • Changes in airway configuration with different head and neck positions using magnetic resonance imaging of normal airways: a new concept with possible clinical applications

    Keith Greenland;Keith Greenland;Keith Greenland;Michael Edwards;N. Hutton;Vivien Challis

  • Analysis of depth of anesthesia with Hilbert-Huang spectral entropy.

    Xiaoli Li;Duan Li;Zhenhu Liang;Logan J. Voss

  • Cortical entropy changes with general anaesthesia: theory and experiment.

    J W Sleigh;D A Steyn-Ross;M L Steyn-Ross;C Grant

  • Comparison of changes in electroencephalographic measures during induction of general anaesthesia: influence of the gamma frequency band and electromyogram signal

    J.W. Sleigh;D.A. Steyn-Ross;M.L. Steyn-Ross;M.L. Williams

  • The use of polymerase chain reaction to detect septicemia in critically ill patients.

    Ray T. M. Cursons;Emmanuel Jeyerajah;James W. Sleigh

  • Incidence of Connected Consciousness after Tracheal Intubation A Prospective, International, Multicenter Cohort Study of the Isolated Forearm Technique

    Robert D. Sanders;Amy Gaskell;Aeyal Raz;Joel Winders

  • Changes in consciousness, conceptual memory, and quantitative electroencephalographical measures during recovery from sevoflurane- and remifentanil-based anesthesia.

    Andrew Ronald Gordon Muncaster;James Wallace Sleigh;Murray Williams

  • Does bispectral analysis of the electroencephalogram add anything but complexity

    A Miller;J.W. Sleigh;J Barnard;D.A. Steyn-Ross

  • Brain functional connectivity differentiates dexmedetomidine from propofol and natural sleep

    P. Guldenmund;A. Vanhaudenhuyse;R.D. Sanders;R.D. Sanders;J. Sleigh

  • Toward a theory of the general-anesthetic-induced phase transition of the cerebral cortex. I. A thermodynamics analogy.

    Moira L. Steyn-Ross;D. A. Steyn-Ross;J. W. Sleigh;Lara C. Wilcocks

  • The Sleep Cycle Modelled as a Cortical Phase Transition

    D. A. Steyn-Ross;Moira L. Steyn-Ross;J. W. Sleigh;M. T. Wilson

  • Sleep patterns in intensive care unit patients: a study using the bispectral index.

    T Nicholson;J Patel;J W Sleigh

Frequent Co-Authors

Heidi E. Kirsch
Heidi E. Kirsch University of California, San Francisco
Mark A. Kramer
Mark A. Kramer Boston University
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse University of Liège
George A. Mashour
George A. Mashour University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David T. J. Liley
David T. J. Liley University of Melbourne
Mark R. Hutchinson
Mark R. Hutchinson University of Adelaide
Robert C. Read
Robert C. Read University of Southampton
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford

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