Brain activity and breathing rhythms decouple during deep sleep, offering new insights into Parkinson's and anesthesia.

A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of ...

Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Instead of a deep sleep, general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, in findings that could lead to better treatments for ...