wilder and his partners are careful about their results also because the researchers do not help known what it was the anesthesia that added to the children ' s intellectual surplus , or whether it was an inherent condition that may have required intervention and precipitated the learning problem . of the more than 5 , 000 babies studied , 593 requested at best one surgery and just over 100 infants require more than two before adult 3 . there may be something exceptional about this population of children that could have made them expose to learning issues and required they undertake surgery and anesthesia .
Anesthesia causes learning disabilities.