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What is the current state of research in anaesthesia? I found interesting the 2015 proposal by Hameroff et al that quantum biological channels in microtubules may have a role in human consciousness and anaesthesia. However, experimental evidence of the quantum mobility theory in the human brain is scarce.

http://consciousness.arizona.edu/documents/CTMCms-2-2-2-2-2.pdf

[smart (OP)]

The correlation between anaesthesia and amnesia is interesting. Both phenomenons seems to depend on critical role of
hippocampal synapses in time-dependent memory consolidation. (synaptic plasticity)