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Anesthesia Isn't Sleep. Here’s What Actually Happens.

An 11-minute video by Ordinary Unknowns about medicine and the body, on the Medicine shelf. It was posted to r/Physiology as “Anesthesia Isn't Sleep. Here's What Actually Happens. (2026) - An animated breakdown of the 180-year search to understand how anesthetics work and what happens to the brain during the 40-second induction window [00:11:00]”.

Ordinary Unknowns, Video, 11 min, 2026, on the Medicine shelf

The search to understand how general anaesthetics act on the brain.