(Katlowitz et al., Nature, 2026, color adjusted) Our brains might be more alert when unconscious than we realized. A new study of brain cells in the hippocampus shows that people under general ...

Research shows the brain keeps processing language even under anesthesia, shedding light on subconscious cognitive functions during medical procedures.

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

General anesthesia is a medication you get before surgeries that requires you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

Doctors use general anesthesia during surgery to ensure a person is unconscious and cannot feel pain. Under general anesthesia, people are unable to feel pain (analgesic) and will be unconscious.