When you are awake, your neurons talk to each other by tuning into the same electrical impulse frequencies. One set might be operating in unison at 10 hertz, while another might synchronize at 30 ...

To her surgeon, all the hammering, sawing and drilling was just part of another hip replacement surgery. But to Sharon Leef, wide awake on the operating table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los ...

You are asleep on the table, surrounded by beeping monitors and people in white, unaware of the tube down your throat and the slice of the surgeon’s knife. You wake a few hours later, as if from deep ...

Anesthesia affects receptors in the brain, which may cause side effects following surgery. However, evidence that anesthesia causes long-term memory loss is inconclusive. Some people may experience ...

Seven epilepsy patients lay unconscious on operating tables at Baylor College of Medicine, their brains exposed for surgery, while Neuropixels probes recorded hundreds of individual neurons firing in ...