What Does Anesthesia Do to Your Brain?

Scientists know that anesthesia drugs are really good at knocking you out. What they don’t know is how. ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Lilly Grainger, Happy Birthday!!, and Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/ http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/anesthesia/basics/definition/prc-20014786 http://io9.com/how-does-anesthesia-work-doctors-arent-sure-and-her-1592809615 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228402.300-banishing-consciousness-the-mystery-of-anaesthesia/#.U6Ho-o1dVAE http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-anesthesia-work/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/propofol-michael-jackson-doctor/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162622/ http://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/pages/factsheet_anesthesia.aspx http://neurowiki2013.wikidot.com/individual:neurotransmitter-system-and-neural-circuits-gover http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jm010461a http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/297/1/338.long Special thanks to Joseph Praver!