"It's One of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of Science: What New Discoveries About General Brain Anesthesia Reveal to Us
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More than 350 million surgeries are performed annually worldwide under general anesthesia and yet the exact way in which the substances used to sleep the patient are working is not well understood. New discoveries made by researchers reveal more about the fundamental mechanisms of our brain and provide new clues about the origins of consciousness, one of the great unresolved mysteries of science, reports BBC.
Science still doesn't know exactly why anesthetics work, but they reveal indications about the nature of our consciousness.
It is not entirely clear how these drugs bring us into unconsciousness; the clues that are now emerging help scientists to better understand the functioning of the mind
General anesthesia is used in hundreds of millions of surgeries every year, but the exact mechanism by which these substances cause loss of consciousness is not yet fully understood. Recent research shows that anaesthetics affect how different regions of the brain communicate with each other and provide new clues about the nature of consciousness.
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