Study protocol: Cerebral characterization of sensory gating in disconnected dreaming states during propofol anesthesia using fMRI.

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"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The study was supported by the Mind Science Foundation-Tom Slick Research Award granted to BC, JA, VB, and SL; the Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS); the Fondation Leon Fredericq ("Crédit classique", "Crédits forfaitaires" and "Bourse de fonctionnement"); the University and University Hospital of Liège; the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liege University Hospital, Belgium. The study was further supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement no. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA3), the FNRS PDR project (T.0134.21), FNRS - MIS project F.4521.23, FNRS - MIS project F.4521.23, the ERA-Net FLAG-ERA JTC2021 project ModelDXConsciousness (Human Brain Project Partnering Project), the fund Generet, the King Baudouin Foundation, the Télévie Foundation, the Public Utility Foundation “Université Européenne du Travail”, "Fondazione Europea di Ricerca Biomedica", the BIAL Foundation, the European Commission, the Mind-Care foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Joint Research Project 81471100) and the European Foundation of Biomedical Research FERB Onlus. BC is doctoral candidate at the GIGA Doctoral School for Health Science (University of Liege) and FNRS-ASP. LL is supported by the EU Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) (SCAIFIELD project – FNRS reference: PINT-MULTI R.8006.20). OG is Research Associate at FRS-FNRS. CP and SL are Research Directors at FRS-FNRS. SL is supported by the Human Brain Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, European Foundation of Biomedical Research FERB Onlus, fund Generet of King Baudouin Foundation, Mind Care International Foundation. JA is postdoctoral fellow funded (1265522N) by the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO)."