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Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

The question of anesthesia's impact on brain development has nagged the field for decades, with negative preclinical and animal model data but little conclusive evidence in humans. Young children ...

Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then a Boston dentist publicly demonstrated that the highly flammable chemical ...

Some, but not all, research suggests that more women recall events that happened under anesthesia than men do, and that women wake up from anesthesia faster than men. When you purchase through links ...

More people are getting tattoos under anesthesia — but “the risk is never zero,” an expert tells PEOPLE Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...

Ricardo Godoi reportedly hired a tattoo studio to ink his body in a hospital setting, where he ultimately died on the operating table Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

Researchers have figured out how a commonly used general anesthetic drug induces unconsciousness by causing brain activity to become increasingly unstable. The findings could lead to better anesthetic ...