Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation

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."

Comments

Re:Don't ignore the signals.

[Eightyford]

I agree, but it's also pretty easy to take the positive effects of these drugs for granted too. Big Pharm, is doing a lot more for our quality of life than hippies with their wonder herbs!

Re:Misleading summary, article

[Cadallin]

The answer is yes, Pharmaceuticals ARE the tobacco companies of tomorrow. The worst part is, we pay for it both ways. All research in America is at least mostly publicly funded (By all, I mean 90+%) Even Pharmaceutical companies get federal grants to aid in their research, but mostly they just grab stuff done at the big research Uni's. Then when it's time to sell their "product" they bitch and whine about how they need money to do research and reap unholy profits gouging the sick.

It's disgusting and pathetic. They spend more money hawking their wares than they do coming up with them.