How the brain shifts between sleep/awake states under anesthesia
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
An estimated 25 million patients per year in the U.S. undergo surgeries using general anesthesia, but scientists have only been able to hypothesize how anesthetics interact with the CNS. Now, researchers have established in animal models that the brain comes in and out of a state of induced unconsciousness through different processes.