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Brains under anesthesia are still processing words and sounds — and patients have no memory of it afterward
When you go under general anesthesia, you vanish. The surgeon speaks, monitors beep, nurses call out vitals, and you remember none of it. You wake up as if someone cut a hole in time. But according to ...
The purpose of anesthesia is to put the brain into an unconscious state in which stimuli such as sounds are not perceived. In this state, the neurons in the auditory cortex are still stimulated by ...
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Patients under general anesthesia may still process spoken words, a study suggests
Researchers have recorded direct evidence that the human hippocampus continues to process spoken words, grammar, and meaning during propofol general anesthesia, raising pointed questions about what ...
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