Medicine
How Does Anesthesia Work?
Anesthesia works by flooding the brain and nervous system with molecules that disrupt the electrical signals neurons use to communicate, pressing pause on consciousness, memory, and pain processing.
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Neuroscience
How Does Pain Work?
Pain begins with danger signals from tissue, but pain itself is constructed by the brain after weighing injury signals against context, memory, emotion, attention, and expectation.
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