What Brewing Coffee Can Teach Us About Modeling Anesthesia

Friday, September 25, 2015 - 16:40 in Psychology & Sociology

By Michael Greshko, Inside Science – Mathematics that can describe coffeepots, forest fires and flu outbreaks may also underpin the brain’s response to anesthesia, a new study suggests.The mathematical model of the brain, published in Physical Review Letters, marks the latest attempt to simulate the surprisingly complicated effects of general anesthetics across the brain. read more

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