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 […]

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