For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on ...

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General anesthesia — the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention — is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from ...

The lethal dose for racemic bupivacaine was higher for two-week-old rats than for 16-week-old rats, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Researchers infused Wistar rats with RS(±) ...