Anesthesia analgesia in the amygdala

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 18 May 2020; doi:10.1038/s41593-020-0645-3

General anesthetics during surgery are presumed to block pain by dampening brain activity and promoting loss-of-consciousness. A new study shows that anesthetics activate an endogenous analgesia neural ensemble in the central nucleus of the amygdala.

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