A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain ...
Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...
Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Instead of a deep sleep, general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, in findings that could lead to better treatments for ...
I recently had surgery. I spoke with the anesthesiologist and learned what would happen and what to expect. In the operating room, I got comfortable on the table and had a mask placed over my nose and ...
Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, ...
An innovative study uses the anesthetics propofol and isoflurane in humans to study the patterns of reemerging consciousness and cognitive function after anesthesia. Millions of surgical procedures ...
A new technological development allows, for the first time, to monitor changes in pupil size and gaze direction behind closed eyes using touchless infrared imaging. In the future, tracking changes in ...
I recently had surgery. I spoke with the anesthesiologist and learned what would happen and what to expect. In the operating room, I got comfortable on the table and had a mask placed over my nose and ...