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Why does prolonged anesthesia cause both cognitive dysfunction and anxiety through the same synaptic mechanism?
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neurodegeneration
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The study reports that complement-mediated synaptic elimination produces both cognitive deficits and anxiety-like behaviors, but doesn't explain how the same hippocampal synaptic loss generates these distinct behavioral phenotypes. This mechanistic gap limits understanding of perioperative neurocognitive disorders.
Gap type: unexplained_observation
Source paper: Prolonged anesthesia induces neuroinflammation and complement-mediated microglial synaptic elimination involved in neurocognitive dysf