Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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News tagged with anesthetic drugs
Medications
Study reveals how an anesthesia drug induces unconsciousness
There are many drugs that anesthesiologists can use to induce unconsciousness in patients. Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT neuroscientists have now answered ...
Jul 15, 2024
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Medical research
Ketamine helps see how the brain works in clinical depression
(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study published in Nature, Lisa Monteggia from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center looks at how the drug ketamine, typically used as an anesthetic or a popular recreational drug ...
Neuroscience
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 orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness ...
Apr 4, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
No laughing matter – nitrous oxide helps to unravel rapid antidepressant mechanisms
Ketamine has been intensively studied in psychiatry in recent years. Unlike traditional antidepressants, ketamine brings about its antidepressant effects very rapidly. A recent study conducted at the University of Helsinki, ...
Mar 27, 2019
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Neuroscience
Research discovers how brain activity changes when anesthesia induces unconsciousness
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to signal exactly when patients lose consciousness ...
Nov 5, 2012
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Medications
Teething baby? Avoid benzocaine, FDA says
(HealthDay) -- Parents should not use benzocaine products to relieve teething pain in babies except under the advice and supervision of a health care professional, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
Jul 29, 2012
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Neuroscience
The brain network driving changes in consciousness
The loss and return of consciousness is linked to the same network of brain regions for both sleep and anesthesia, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Dec 28, 2020
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Other
Three factors could point to your fate after surgery
Duke University Medical Center researchers have verified data that suggest three medical factors appear to correlate with mortality for a patient who has been under anesthesia for an operation.
Oct 19, 2011
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Neuroscience
When unconscious, the brain is anything but 'silent'
The cerebral cortex is thought to be the seat of conscious processing in the brain. Rather than being inactivated, specific cells in the cortex show higher spontaneous activity during general anesthesia than when awake, and ...
May 12, 2022
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