Meet some of the people featured in the March 2019 issue of The Scientist.

In an era of instant communication, we must be careful how word of new and untested treatments is shared.

The drugs lead to widespread, predictable changes in brain waves that can help anesthesiologists personalize anesthesia and develop anesthetic-based treatments.

Drugs that doctors use to sedate patients during traumatic medical procedures act on neural receptors to alter brain activity.

This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

A selection of notable quotes from the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting

Bill Bowman, champion of modern anesthetics and the founding professor of pharmacology at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, has passed away at age 83.

Analyses of brain activity patterns show that different drugs induce anesthesia via a common neural mechanism.

Measuring consciousness; unethical data splitting; the deliciousness of beer; autism mutations linked to cannabinoid signaling; arming animals against electron microscopes

Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients.