Website review: DARPA Develops Brain Chemical to Re...
HarleyJane18 discovered this in Science/Tech
•48 reviews since Jan 2, 2008
science, sleep, health
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kenshuei rated 6 months ago- the question I want answered is what are the size affects? I mean replaces sleep? I love sleep I may not want it.
- Alcoolex rated 6 months ago
- Pretty cool but this is imergency stuff that I would take only cause I've been studying for an exam all night long.. I really need a truck of these. Although I'm pretty sure sleep helps regenerate many kinds of tissue as well as influences brain pathways. The brain acts does different (apparently) important things when people sleep and I don't think an horome is the culmination of its work.
- SwaToRz rated 6 months ago
- I want some ~~
- F3nr1L rated 6 months ago
- This makes me happy.
- Wobbles rated 6 months ago
- Ok so let get this straight. The main group this is being studied to be used on are soldiers on the battlefield.
So if this worked "as intended" the idea would be to have said soldiers deployed in... Oh let's just spitball here and say a 130 degree desert in the middle east.
You drop a group of these guys off, tell them they can't sleep for the next 72 to 96 hours then hand them a fully automatic assault rifle, a couple of grenades and a bottle of nose spray.
Yeah right, I can't imagine ANY possibility of a bad ending to this scenario.
Does sound like it could have some beneficial civilian uses though for those with sleep disorders. - Ok so let get this straight. The main group this is being studied to be used on are soldiers on the battlefield.
- omegainstigator rated 6 months ago
- sleep sucks anyway. but this stuff will help humans find the limit to how long we can stay awake before we die. over and over.
- induscrypt rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "This time Darpa-funded scientists have found a drug that eliminates sleepiness with a nasal spray of a key brain hormone. The spray has worked well in lab experiments, with no apparent side effects. The hope is that the hormone will serve as a promising sleep-replacement drug in humans. The spray contains a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A. In tests, monkeys suffering from sleep deprivation were treated with the substance and were subsequently able to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests. " - The study, published in the Dec. 26 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience, found orexin A not only restored monkeys' cognitive abilities but made their brains look "awake" in PET scans, as well. Siegel said that orexin A is unique in that it only had an impact on sleepy monkeys, not alert ones, and that it is "specific in reversing the effects of sleepiness" without other impacts on the brain. * Goodbye, Nescafe! BTW, accordingto v-ki-pdya, this will also make you hungrier*
- bonus-level rated 7 months ago
- They haven't found the side effects yet.
- Korinthian rated 7 months ago
- Teenage computer players around the world rejoice!
- FireFromTheGods rated 7 months ago
- Thumbs up for science, but we are becoming less and less human every year. Sleep replacement???????
