It didn’t make the final draft of this post, but we did consider mentioning anesthesia’s ability to turn the brain ‘off’. I like Matta et al 1995, because “make the brain flatline on an EEG” was considered harmless enough by the medical community that it passed an ethics review board to do this to patients who didn’t need it, just because it helped researchers test the exact mechanisms of anesthetic operations:
It didn’t make the final draft of this post, but we did consider mentioning anesthesia’s ability to turn the brain ‘off’. I like Matta et al 1995, because “make the brain flatline on an EEG” was considered harmless enough by the medical community that it passed an ethics review board to do this to patients who didn’t need it, just because it helped researchers test the exact mechanisms of anesthetic operations:
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesiology/fulltext/1995/11000/direct_cerebrovasodilatory_effects_of_halothane,.11.aspx