The Model: General Considerations
•The most abundant unpaired spins in the brain are the proton nuclear spins of all the molecules and electronic spins carried by O2.
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•Neural membranes are
the matrices of most vital brain
functions and phospholipids/proteins are saturated with proton nuclear spins.
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•O2 play crucial roles in brain functions and is hypothesized by us to be involved in the mechanism of anesthetic action (Hu & Wu [2002], Medical
Hypotheses, 57, p. 619).