Early Exposure to Anesthesia and Learning Disabilities in a Population-based Birth Cohort

EXPOSURE to alcohol and some anesthetic and sedative drugs cause histopathologic changes in the developing brains of animals.1–3Implicated drugs include N -methyl-d-aspartate glutamate receptor antagonists (e.g. , ketamine, nitrous oxide) and agents with γ-aminobutyric acid A mimetic properties (e.g... View More