Keith M Vogt

This study uses brain scans to understand how low doses of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) change the way the brain processes pain and forms memories. Sixty healthy volunteers will receive mild electric shocks while breathing nitrous oxide or normal air, and their brain activity wil…

This study looked at how a low dose of the anesthetic sevoflurane affects memory and brain responses to pain. Forty-two healthy adults inhaled sevoflurane or no drug while receiving mild electric shocks and performing memory tasks. Brain scans (fMRI) measured activity changes. Th…