Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott came to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though it may be a surprise to the millions of people who undergo general anesthesia every year for medical procedures, the biological mechanism for how different anesthetics block consciousness is ...

1. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to ...

Though it may be a surprise to the millions of people who undergo general anesthesia every year for medical procedures, the biological mechanism for how different anesthetics block consciousness is ...

Study: Different Anesthetics Cause Different Brain Activity A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

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, ...