{"id":189728,"date":"2024-05-19T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-05-19T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:29:21","slug":"after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4773932\/pdf\/BLT.15.159293.pdf\/\">Over 350 million surgeries<\/a> are performed globally each year. For most of us, it\u2019s likely at some point in our lives we\u2019ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it is one of the safest medical practices, we still don\u2019t have a complete, thorough understanding of precisely how anaesthetic drugs work in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has largely remained a mystery since general anaesthesia was introduced into medicine over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.3109\/08941939.2015.1061826\">180 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it\u2019s likely at some point in our lives we\u2019ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia. Even though it is one of the safest medical practices, we still don\u2019t have a complete, thorough understanding of precisely how anaesthetic drugs work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}