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Curious Cases

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What's Going on With General Anesthetics?

I don't think we've got a full understanding of how every drug works, but we do know quite a bit. So in general, what's happening is that by interacting with those receptors, they're kind of reducing the amount of excitation... so you then lose consciousness. I'm just, I mean, I heard some stuff about ions. But what I did hear there was that people aren't sure about how this thing works. Have I, have I understood that correctly?

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