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

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 ...

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 ...

A study in Current Biology found anesthesia drugs not only turn off wakefulness, but also switch on important sleep circuits in the brain, according to U.S. News and World Report. Though humans have ...

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 ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, talks to researchers at Stanford University. The team, led by Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, studies altered states of consciousness, including ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses patients' dreams while under anesthesia. Following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Feinstein: If an anesthesiologist ...