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·April 4, 2012·4 min read

Primitive Consciousness Emerges First as You Awaken from Anesthesia

Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and...

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·March 4, 2013·5 min read

How the Brain Loses and Regains Consciousness

Using EEG to track brain activity, researchers identify distinctive brain patterns associated with general anesthesia as patients lost and regained consciousness.

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·June 5, 2013·3 min read

Study Expands Concerns About Anesthesia’s Impact on the Brain

Using laboratory mice, researchers show anesthesia's neurotoxic effects depend upon the age of the neurons in the brain and not the age of the animal undergoing anesthesia.

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·July 29, 2013·4 min read

Surgical Anesthetic Appears to Treat Drug Resistant Depression

Researchers discover the anesthetic drug isoflurane could help treat drug resistant depression.

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·March 19, 2014·2 min read

Rats’ Brains May Remember Odor Experienced While Under General Anesthesia

A new study reports rats brains could remember odors experienced while the animal was under general anesthetic.

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·June 9, 2014·3 min read

To Recover Consciousness, Brain Activity Passes through Newly Detected States

New research suggest the anesthetized brain must pass through certain way stations on the path back to consciousness.

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·July 28, 2014·6 min read

Study Suggests Disruptive Effects of Anesthesia on Brain Cell Connections Are Temporary

A new study of brain cells from juvenile rats suggests the effects of a common anesthetic, isoflurane, on the connections between neurons are temporary.

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·October 4, 2014·2 min read

Waking Up the Visual System

Researchers observe changes in two populations of visual cortex neurons in rodents waking from anesthesia.

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·June 8, 2015·5 min read

Study Links Surgical Anesthesia to Lower IQ and Decreased Gray Matter Density in Young Children

A new study reports children who received general anesthetic prior to the age of four had lower IQ, decreased gray matter density in posterior areas of the brain and diminished language comprehension.

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·July 6, 2015·5 min read

Brainwave Changes Revealed in Patients Receiving Nitrous Oxide

Researchers reveal key brainwave changes in patients who receive nitrous oxide.

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·July 14, 2015·5 min read

Amazing Case of Man With 90 Minute Memory

Researchers claim the case of a man who suffers from extreme anterograde amnesia following a trip to the dentist is "like nothing we have ever seen before".