Anesthesia is an important tool for exploring human consciousness, but scientists still aren’t quite sure how it works, despite using it on patients for 170 years. A new study analyzes the brain under ...

Anesthesia plays a vital role in modern medicine, allowing patients to undergo surgery and medical procedures pain-free and with minimal discomfort. Anesthesia is a medical treatment that blocks the ...

In a New York Times article, Emery Neal Brown, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, answered questions about how ...

The brains of mammals continuously combine signals originating from different regions to produce various sensations, emotions, thoughts and behaviors. This process, known as information integration, ...

The procedures performed in ASCs are increasingly complex: Orthopedics and spine, for example, are specialties that present such procedures. But it’s not just the procedures that are getting more ...

General anesthesia is given during surgery to make people unconscious, eliminate pain during the procedure and prevent reflex movements. Many factors are known to impact how anesthesia affects a given ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, one of the best tools for probing the nature of human consciousness has been medicine’s most reliable method for switching it off: ...