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 ...
Seven people under general anesthesia lay unconscious on an operating table while researchers played short stories into the ...
Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor ...
Hormone Involved in Sleep-Wake Cycles Plays Key Role in Waking Up After Anesthesia Newswise — San Francisco, CA. (September 25, 2012) – A neuropeptide hormone called orexin-A—which plays an important ...
Newswise — Will reducing the volume of local anesthetic prevent the incidence of hemidiaphragmatic paresis (HDP) in patients receiving an ultrasound-guided supraclavicular block? Unfortunately, no, ...
Anesthesia during a short surgery doesn’t harm a baby’s brain development, according to an experiment involving hundreds of infants in seven countries. While the study can’t answer broader safety ...