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Surgery Has a More Profound Effect Than Anesthesia On Brain Pathology and Cognition in Alzheimer's Animal Model Doctors weren't sure if the "post-operative cognitive decline" seniors experience was due to anesthesia or the surgery. In a mouse study using the familial type of Alzheimer's they found the greatest impact was from the surgery itself, via brain inflammation. A syndrome called "post-ope…