How the brain loses and regains consciousness
How the brain loses and regains consciousness
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Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery.
Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery.
Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the first round of Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative award recipients, including several MIT
Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative award recipients.
Current methods to check for increased pressure in a patient’s brain are invasive. One widely used technique is to drill a hole in the skull to insert a catheter or sensor into the brain tissue.
MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new way to classify neurons by labeling and imaging the proteins found in each cell.
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an assistant professor in
New technique can reveal subcellular details and long-range connections.
This article is adapted from a National Institutes of Health press release.
The use of general anesthesia for surgery has not changed fundamentally since it was first introduced 170 years ago.