{"id":3806,"date":"2024-07-15T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/study-reveals-how-an-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousness\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T15:58:47","slug":"study-reveals-how-an-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/study-reveals-how-an-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals how an anesthesia drug induces unconsciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels There are many drugs that anesthesiologists can use to induce unconsciousness in patients. Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT neuroscientists have now answered that question for one commonly used anesthesia drug. Using a novel technique for analyzing neuron activity, the researchers discovered that the drug propofol induces unconsciousness by disrupting the brain&#8217;s normal balance between stability and excitability. The drug causes brain activity to become increasingly unstable, until the brain loses consciousness. &#8220;The brain <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/study-reveals-how-an-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousness\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels There are many drugs that anesthesiologists can use to induce unconsciousness in patients. Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT neuroscientists have now answered that question for one commonly used anesthesia drug. Using a novel technique for analyzing neuron activity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}