Why does prolonged anesthesia cause both cognitive dysfunction and anxiety through the same synaptic mechanism?

Why does prolonged anesthesia cause both cognitive dysfunction and anxiety through the same synaptic mechanism?

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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

Gap: gap-pubmed-20260406-062128-34a47c4e

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