We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works

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:   / 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:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/... https://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/his... https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6320881/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.nature.com/articles/310599a0 https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org... https://www.pnas.org/content/117/24/1... Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pat... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cel... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mol... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bef... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neu... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blu... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fem...