How lobed brain corals are helping solve the mystery of what general anaesthesia does to the brain
- Written by Adam David Hines, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
ShutterstockMany of us will undergo general anaesthesia at some point in our lives — losing consciousness so we can be operated on painlessly. But although humans have used general anaesthesia for more than 150 years, we still don’t fully understand how it affects the brain.
To find out, we turned to a genus of stony coral called lobed...





