Lasting impact of general anaesthesia on the brain: mechanisms and relevance

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17, 705 (2016).
doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.128

Authors: Laszlo Vutskits & Zhongcong Xie
General anaesthesia is usually considered to safely induce a reversible brain state allowing the performance of surgery under optimal conditions. An increasing number of clinical and experimental observations, however, suggest that anaesthetic drugs, especially when they are administered at the extremes of age, can trigger

Source: Nature Reviews Neuroscience - October 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Laszlo Vutskits Zhongcong Xie Tags: Review Source Type: research