In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, talks to researchers at Stanford University. The team, led by Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, studies altered states of consciousness, including what happens in the brain under anesthesia.

Editor's note: Video footage of the research study participant used with permission.

Following is a transcript of the video (note that errors are possible).

Feinstein: As an anesthesiologist, when I give anesthesia, it's always because there's something else that is going to happen. There's going to be a surgery, a procedure, or some type of imaging. But in this room here, anesthesia is administered and there is no procedure that follows. What happens in this room under anesthesia?

Pilleriin Sikka, PhD : We are trying to understand what happens w

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