Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation 610
Ryan O'Rourke writes "According to a study led by Dr. Sam A. Deadwyler and published by the Public Library of Science Biology, a new drug called CX717 developed by Cortex Pharmaceuticals has been shown to reverse the biological and behavioral effects of sleep deprivation. Tests performed on monkeys that were subjected to 30-36 hours of sleep deprivation revealed an average test performance accuracy drop to 63 percent, but that performance was restored to 84 percent after administering CX717. During normal alert conditions, performance accuracy of the animals was improved from an average of 75 percent to 90 percent after an injection of CX717. It is also believed the drug may help prevent or restore memory loss in Alzheimer's patients."
Coming soon... (Score:5, Funny)
Slep deprvaiton .. (Score:3, Funny)
They tested with monkeys... (Score:2, Funny)
Fitzghon
Re:Coming soon... (Score:1, Funny)
Grad students! (Score:3, Funny)
great! now I can work longer... (Score:5, Funny)
WOOOOOOOOOOW (Score:1, Funny)
EA (Score:5, Funny)
Richie Rich foretold this (Score:3, Funny)
Richie Rich: harbinger of the future.
volunteer monkeys (Score:1, Funny)
How much will it cost? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coming soon... (Score:5, Funny)
EA_spouse spontaneously combusts.
Re:Don't ignore the signals. (Score:4, Funny)
Tweekers (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't ignore the signals. (Score:3, Funny)
Anyhow- I would love to not have to sleep- as long as the workday was still 8 hours. Man, I could get a lot done...
Re:Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
You could go to sleep at 4am and still be refreshed the next morning... Err... Afternoon. Well.. As long as it's after 2pm and you have to get up to go to the bathroom and can't sleep anymore and since you're in the bathroom you might as well take a shower and maybe since you are already up you might as well check your email... Next thing you know it's 3am and you start to think that maybe you should stop playing WoW at this point, but you're this close to the next level... Argh...
Ah the joys of unemployement... Not that I am talking on personal experience or anything. *coughs*
Re:Coming soon... (Score:2, Funny)
Women everywhere moan (Score:5, Funny)
I'm too tired honey....
Re:Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Blasphemy! Everyone knows the really good shit doesn't start happending until 4 am or 3 hours before you have get to work.
Re:That would work for a while (Score:3, Funny)
Which would explain the disappearance of Jiminy Cricket from the MS Labs.
And I'm not sure what you've been up to if you've been taxing your conscience enough that it needs a rest...
Re:Don't ignore the signals. (Score:4, Funny)
The second rule of fight clib, is don't talk about fight club...
Anyhow, I always try and fall asleep first if there is a woman sleeping in my bed with me- If she falls asleep first, you are likely to hear a terrific fart (women don't fart less than us, they just hold them, while we are proud of them, and as such they are much stinkier and louder) and once you hear a woman fart, the magic is gone....
It's a trick: (Score:5, Funny)
Whoah (Score:2, Funny)
This is what the world needs! (Score:3, Funny)
New drug makes people smarter! Quick! Ban It! (Score:3, Funny)
That being said, there is a horrible drug plaguing our streets known as 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine [wikipedia.org]. It is lethal in doses as small as 3.2 grams. It is consumed compulsivley by a growing number of American addicts. It can cause psychomoter agitation, rambling flow of though and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia. Large evil megacorps are trying to poison our childrens lives with them by getting them addicted to it early and it is even being distributed in schools by their dealers! Some people even say it helps them concentrate and lets them stay up longer but these benefits pale in comparison to the evils of this psychotropic drug. The Deaths [mit.edu] piling up because of this drug should lead us to ban it immediately! We should also ban a substance often taken in conjunction with this awful drug known as DHMO [dhmo.org].
I have ridden the mighty moon worm! (Score:4, Funny)
So when do I get my sweet glowing blue eyes?
Re:Coming soon... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Women everywhere moan (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sometimes it's good to forget. (Score:2, Funny)
Something funny from the summary (Score:5, Funny)
Darn'd grandma. Her memory is improving again. Time to restore her memory loss.......
Ok, this is sort of scary....
Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
"It's absolutely fantastic." Buzzeye says as he scrapes away the skin around his eyes with a rusty nail-puller. "I've never felt better, and my productivity is way up." When asked if there were any side-effects, Buzzeye replied "None whatsoever. Since I killed my wife and sold my children to Satan, who happens to live two doors down, things have been great. Now if I could only get the snakes to stop eating my feet, I'd be one hundred percent. Oh, could you get the door, I think it's Napoleon. He's a real bitch, and he likes to steal my aluminum brainguard."
Great, that's all we need... (Score:2, Funny)
Sleep and Orgasm. (Score:4, Funny)
In this society, we are powerfully encouraged to discharge that energy as quickly as possible through orgasm. According to some, sexual energy, once thus spent, is collected and consumed by etheric beings who exist in a higher level of reality and keep the human race like cattle for this purpose, (among others). True or not, you don't get to use your sexual energy once it's been given up through orgasm.
On the other hand, sexual energy can also be saved up and used in other ways. People who have a lot of regular sex tend to be exhausted and dim behind the eyes because their primary source of 'income' energy is much reduced. One's level of awareness and the availability of energy are directly linked to one another.
This is not to say that having orgasms is 'bad'. Physical sex is part of why we all came to this reality. It's fun, and it can be used to link in very powerful ways to other people, as well as link to otherwise difficult to access knowledge. But for the most part, people are instructed by the media to channel away their sexual energy immediately before it can be effectively used for anything else. In the morning, people often wake up in states of heightened arousal. This has nothing to do with holding back urination as conventional medicine tells us, (you don't get a woody any other time during the day when you need to 'go'. And it happens for women as well, who don't have the same plumbing) Sexual energy is there to be used as you wish.
In any case, sleep is the way this energy finds its way into us from the Universal source. Drugs which prevent sleep are, I assume, accessing stored wells of energy, which cannot last forever. There is a reason why they say, "Speed Kills". --Of course, there are other ways in which to draw energy from the world around us other than sleep, including drawing energy from the earth through grounding meditations and exercises, (good!) Eating food and consuming life force, (standard), energetic vampirism through direct and indirect methods of torturing others, (nasty and ultimately self-destructive.). But above all of these, Sexual energy is potent and pure and freely available to anybody who can catch 40 winks.
-FL
Re:Don't ignore the signals. (Score:4, Funny)
Or failing that, Russel & Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"? My university-long insomnia cure - never could get more than four pages in before I dropped off...
Re:Heart attack in a pill (Score:2, Funny)
Quite to the contrary, if I spent the day licking my own butt, I'd probably need my memory erased every night, too.