{"id":193569,"date":"2024-07-26T00:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/common-sedative-could-break-consciousness-by-tipping-your-brain-into-chaos"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:22:33","slug":"common-sedative-could-break-consciousness-by-tipping-your-brain-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/common-sedative-could-break-consciousness-by-tipping-your-brain-into-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Common Sedative Could Break Consciousness by Tipping Your Brain Into Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-sedative-could-break-consciousness-by-tipping-your-brain-into-chaos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A loss of controlled inhibition of overly excited brain cells might explain how a common knock-out anesthesia drug works.<\/p>\n<p>A new animal study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that propofol, a sedative used to safely lull people into unconsciousness for medical procedures, disrupts the brain\u2019s normal ability to regain control of highly excitable neurons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brain has to operate on this knife\u2019s edge between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-human-brains-complexity-verges-on-the-brink-of-chaos-physicists-say\">excitability and chaos<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/study-reveals-how-anesthesia-drug-induces-unconsciousnes-0715\">explains<\/a> MIT neuroscientist and senior study author Earl Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loss of controlled inhibition of overly excited brain cells might explain how a common knock-out anesthesia drug works. A new animal study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that propofol, a sedative used to safely lull people into unconsciousness for medical procedures, disrupts the brain\u2019s normal ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193569","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\/193569","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}