Medical Xpress May 06, 2026 • 15:40

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next - Medical Xpress

By Baylor College of Medicine

While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next - Medical Xpress

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge what we know about the role of conscious…

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published i… [+4593 chars]

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