Doctors are investigating whether a simple prompt can make surgery more pleasant—and perhaps open the door to a new approach ...

A new study suggests anesthesiologists may be able to safely increase the likelihood that patients dream during surgery — and that those dreams are typically positive, calming and associated with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The protocol, developed by anesthesiologists from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, includes a verbal instruction to the ...

In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, talks to researchers at Stanford University. The team, led by Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, studies altered states of consciousness, including ...

Prior case reports have noted that some patients experienced reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression, and anxiety following anesthetic dreams. The key ingredient may ...