Researchers have recorded direct evidence that the human hippocampus continues to process spoken words, grammar, and meaning during propofol general anesthesia, raising pointed questions about what ...

Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor ...

Researchers found that the hippocampus of patients under general anesthesia processed speech signals, distinguished word ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

When waking up from general anesthesia, some people say, "I realized it was over when I woke up." For the individual, it can feel as though time skipped from just before the anesthesia began to the ...

The state of sedation, analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis is called general anesthesia. In other words, general anesthesia is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. This ...

Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced this neural circuitry back to a cluster of cells at the ...