
The Mind Numbing Medicine
Curious Cases
Anesthesia and Loss of Consciousness
Anil Dash: There's a lot to unpack from my friend Irene there. When she talks about mounting slow waves, what is Irene talking about? She's talking about these very slow oscillations in overall brain activity. And this hints at an underlying mechanism for anesthesia and loss of consciousness - cortical bistability. That just means that the brain can be in two different states.
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