wilder and his colleagues are cautious about their results also because the experiments do not make evident whether it was the anesthesia that contributed to the babies ' s cognitive fiscal , or that it was an original condition that april have required surgery and precipitated the learning problems . of the more than 5 , 000 babies studied , 593 needed at some one treatment and just over 100 infants needed more than two before maturity 3 . there may be more unusual about this population of parents that could have made them vulnerable to learning problems and required they undergo procedures and anesthesia .
Anesthesia causes learning disabilities.