At the next EEG Working Group meeting, Dr Adela Desowska will present her latest research on how anaesthesia shapes EEG activity in young children. 

Spectral EEG features that can resemble the patterns seen in adults emerge in children after the age of 10 months and cannot distinguish wakefulness and anaesthesia in the youngest children. 

Dr Desowska's work addresses fascinating questions: How does anaesthesia alter EEG patterns in very young children (even younger than 10 months), and how does this affect their brain’s connectivity and consciousness? Can these shifts help us better monitor the depth of anaesthesia in paediatric patients?

Join this talk for fresh insights into the dynamics of EEG and consciousness in the developing brain!

If you are based at St Thomas's, you can come join in person. 

About the speaker

Dr Adela Desowska is a postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined the Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London. She previously worked at Imperial College London and at Boston Children's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), where she carried out her work on infant anaesthesia. 

Date and time

Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 11.00  – 12.00

Location

This is a hybrid meeting:

•  In person: St Thomas's Hospital, Seminar Room, Centre for the Developing Brain (CDB), 1st floor South Wing. Find how to get there.
• Online: on Microsoft Teams. 

To receive the meeting link, join our Teams channel (using this link or the Teams code: a2qd0zr) or contact one of our group leads, Dr Irene Faiman at: irene.faiman@kcl.ac.uk, Ryan Stanyard at: ryan.a.stanyard@kcl.ac.uk, or Dr Andrea Biondi at: andrea.2.biondi@kcl.ac.uk.