SciShow: We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works

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Content of the Lesson: Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMra0808281 https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007410.htm https://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/history-of-anesthesia/ https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778226/ https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.22960 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6320881/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349501762005 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701367/ https://www.nature.com/articles/310599a0 https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1933766 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/24/13757 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/patient-being-sedated-by-anesthesiologist-before-surgical-procedure-gm487195922-73239123 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cell-membrane-lipid-bi-layer-with-receptors-gm1040982546-278673009 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/molecule-passing-through-a-protein-channel-at-a-lipid-bilayer-cell-membrane-gm1216246989-354583131 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/before-surgery-gm91321129-3576224 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lipid_Raft.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neurons-abstract-background-gm1175122078-327101878 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-led-screen-with-blure-gm483116318-70442489 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/female-medical-research-scientist-working-with-brain-scans-on-her-personal-computer-gm1050311506-280855372


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