Though it may be a surprise to the millions of people who undergo general anesthesia every year for medical procedures, the biological mechanism for how different anesthetics block consciousness is ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to ...

Anesthesia plays a vital role in modern medicine, allowing patients to undergo surgery and medical procedures pain-free and with minimal discomfort. Anesthesia is a medical treatment that blocks the ...

It's wild to think that we've grown organs in labs, built robots that can perform surgery, and started producing mind-controlled prosthetics, but we still don't know exactly how anesthesia works, or ...

For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

Do red-haired people really experience pain differently and need more anesthesia? Read on to learn what the latest research ...