Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while ...

For a century and a half, the mystery of anesthesiology was one of the great unexplored areas of neuroscience, as impenetrable as consciousness itself. Though drugs like nitrous oxide and propofol ...

For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on ...

Though automated anesthesia record systems increase the efficiency and accuracy of data collection, some aspects of the technology may make physicians “scratch their head in frustration,” Tony Mira, ...

Anesthesia affects receptors in the brain, which may cause side effects following surgery. However, evidence that anesthesia causes long-term memory loss is inconclusive. Some people may experience ...

While anesthesia providers have only three modes to report to payers, one seems to cause a lot of confusion among professionals, according to a July 3 blog post from Rita Astani, president of ...

Somnia Anesthesia presented a free webinar June 14 on “Best Practices for Anesthesia Onboarding and Change Management.” The webinar featured speakers Robert Goldstein, MD, chief medical officer for ...

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While sleeping, the entire brain rolls through long, slow waves of electrical activity, like waves on a calm ocean. Researchers call that state of consciousness "slow wave sleep". Waking up changes ...

The drug Ritalin, prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), may help patients wake up after they've been placed under general anesthesia, a new study in animals suggests.