Consciousness: How The Brain Loses And Regains It

Monday, March 4, 2013 - 20:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery since a medical doctor became a legitimate profession in the mid-1800s.  But little has been known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of consciousness. We don't understand why aspirin works either, but it does.  Yet the search for answers about the brain is ongoing.  read more

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