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  "textContent": "When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the brain's balance between stability and excitability, according to a new MIT study published in the journal Cell Reports.",
  "title": "Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, researchers find"
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