When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

Preliminary findings from a new clinical trial show no adverse neurodevelopmental effects after brief inhaled anesthesia and surgery in infants and young children, reports Anesthesiology. A "balanced" ...

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"Anesthesia's effect on consciousness solved, settling century-old scientific debate." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 05 / 200529150619.htm (accessed July 24, 2026).

Propofol-based and volatile-based anesthesia show similar results in adults undergoing cancer surgery, with no significant differences noted in survival or recurrence, a meta-analysis finds.

Neuroscientists have developed a statistical framework that rigorously describes the brain state changes that patients experience under ketamine-induced anesthesia. By developing the first statistical ...

Boris D. Heifets, MD, PhD, and Parthasarathy Thirumala, MD, MS, discuss a new protocol that promotes anesthesia dreaming ...

Although some people may worry that anesthesia could worsen their multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms or bring on a relapse, there is no evidence to suggest that this is true. According to the National ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Some patients can have vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs like propofol, midazolam, diazepam and nitrous oxide. Some make ...