{"id":75092,"date":"2018-01-10T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T08:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-just-changed-our-understanding-of-how-anaesthesia-messes-with-the-brain"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:34","slug":"scientists-just-changed-our-understanding-of-how-anaesthesia-messes-with-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-just-changed-our-understanding-of-how-anaesthesia-messes-with-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Changed Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-changed-our-understanding-of-how-anaesthesia-messes-with-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crazy to think that we still don\u2019t quite understand the mechanism behind one of the most common medical interventions \u2014 general anaesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers in Australia just got a step closer by discovering that one of the most commonly used anaesthetic drugs doesn\u2019t just put us to sleep; it also disrupts communication between brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>The team investigated the drug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openanesthesia.org\/propofol_mechanism_of_action\/\">propofol<\/a>, a super-popular option for surgeries worldwide. A potent sedative, the drug is thought to put us to sleep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10637364\">through its effect<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid\">GABA neurotransmitter system<\/a>, the main regulator of our sleep-and-wake cycles in the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-general-anaesthetic-works-new-discovery-propofol-syntaxin1a-neuron-disruption\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-general-anaesthetic-works-ne...disruption<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s crazy to think that we still don\u2019t quite understand the mechanism behind one of the most common medical interventions \u2014 general anaesthetic. But researchers in Australia just got a step closer by discovering that one of the most commonly used anaesthetic drugs doesn\u2019t just put us to sleep; it also disrupts communication between brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75092","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\/75092","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75141,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75092\/revisions\/75141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}