Anesthesia steals consciousness in stages
Brain’s shift from awake to knocked out is neither gradual nor abrupt, monkey study shows
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GOING UNDER A new study shows that as the anesthetic propofol gradually kicks in, brain networks that were once synchronized start doing their own thing.
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