Millions of Americans undergo anesthesia each year. What we do know is that anesthesia interrupts our brain's neural pathways so we don't feel pain. Anesthesiologist Jill Fong explains how it works.

Academics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated how neural networks can be trained to administer anesthetic during surgery. Over the ...

"Two Different Neural Pathways Regulate Loss And Regain Of Consciousness During General Anesthesia." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 01 / 080111175323.htm (accessed November 2, ...

Since 1846, doctors have used a variety of drugs to make patients unconscious for surgery, but even though the medications have changed, there's one thing that remains the same— it works. But how ...