Coma and general anesthesia demonstrate important similarities

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

NEW YORK (Dec. 30, 2010) -- The brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" as surgery patients are often told -- it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three...

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