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Adam D Hines, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology

After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain

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Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia.

Even though it is one of the safest medical practices, we still don’t have a complete, thorough understanding of precisely how anaesthetic drugs work in the brain.

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