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• How General Anesthesia Works: Plain-Language Explanation
  General anesthesia uses drugs that reversibly switch off consciousness and pain in the brain, while doctors keep breathing and circulation supported during surgery.
• Octopus Intelligence: How a Soft-Bodied Mind Works
  Octopuses have about 500 million neurons, most of them in their arms, and solve puzzles, use tools, and escape tanks. Explore how their alien intelligence works.
• Synaptic Transmission
  The process by which neurons communicate across synapses using neurotransmitters, and how it is modulated and terminated.
• Action Potentials
  The electrical pulse neurons use to send signals: resting potential, ion channels, and the all-or-none wave that travels down axons.