People often describe anesthesia as something that puts a patient in a "deep sleep." An anesthesiologist enters the operating ...

A New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine study published May 11 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found anesthesia may resemble both sleep and coma states in the brain, ...

I recently had surgery. I spoke with the anesthesiologist and learned what would happen and what to expect. In the operating room, I got comfortable on the table and had a mask placed over my nose and ...

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

What happens in the brain when our conscious awareness fades during general anesthesia and normal sleep? Scientists studied this question with novel experimental designs and functional brain imaging.

What happens in the brain when our conscious awareness fades during general anesthesia and normal sleep? Finnish scientists studied this question with novel experimental designs and functional brain ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

A new study revealed a pathological brain activity that precedes the onset of Alzheimer's first symptoms by many years: increased activity in the hippocampus during anesthesia and sleep, resulting ...

New brain mapping: Yale researchers used full-head EEG to map anesthesia-induced brain states, finding similarities to both sleep and coma. Challenging old views: The study disputes the idea that ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...