Our brains are remarkably dynamic, constantly shifting between states of activity that reflect our thoughts, perceptions, and ...

A groundbreaking metric reveals how our brains shift between states of awareness and unresponsiveness during sleep and anesthesia Ever ... Read more ...

Narrator: When you go to sleep, if I pinched you, you'd be up. If I shook you, you'd be up, right? But under anesthesia, I'm gonna pinch you and do a full operation and you're not up. So it's ...

Sedation anesthesia is used for minimally invasive surgeries (like broken bone repair or to diagnose abdominal issues ). It involves light or moderate sedation via an IV so that the patient breathes ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of this ...

Takeda identified post-surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea who were at high-risk of developing respiratory complications in hospital post-anesthesia care units as one population that ...