Brain activity and breathing rhythms decouple during deep sleep, offering new insights into Parkinson's and anesthesia.

Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of ...

Researchers studying mice found that during deep non-REM sleep, breathing patterns become less synchronized with neural activity in brain regions. The findings provide new insights into sleep ...

A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline, “Polysomnography for Sleep-Disordered Breathing Prior to Tonsillectomy in Children,” will be published as a supplement to the July issue of ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

GBI Research released a report on the anesthesia and respiratory device market to 2017 which classified sleep apnea diagnostic systems and portable anesthesia delivery machines as the fastest growing ...