Old theory, new evidence: inhalational anesthetics disrupt a collective quantum state of intraneuronal microtubules to cause unconsciousness.
Medical Gas Research August 18, 2025 Michael C Wiest
Contemporary researchers tend to assume that inhalational anesthetics cause unconsciousness by targeting a varying combination of ion channels and receptors, synaptic proteins, mitochondria, and cytoskeletal proteins including microtubules (MTs). However, this viewpoint does not account for striking empirical facts suggesting that unconsciousness is mediated by a single primary molecular target...