General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years ago was a medical miracle, enabling millions of patients to undergo invasive, life-saving surgeries without pain. Yet despite decades of research, scientists still don’t understand why general anesthesia works. Now scientists think they have discovered part of the answer. In a study published online April 18 in Neuron, a […]