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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:20PM   Printer-friendly

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For two decades, Francesco Benedetti, who heads the psychiatry and clinical psychobiology unit at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, has been investigating so-called wake therapy, in combination with bright light exposure and lithium, as a means of treating depression where drugs have often failed. As a result, psychiatrists in the USA, the UK and other European countries are starting to take notice, launching variations of it in their own clinics. These 'chronotherapies' seem to work by kick-starting a sluggish biological clock; in doing so, they're also shedding new light on the underlying pathology of depression, and on the function of sleep more generally.

"Sleep deprivation really has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression," says Benedetti. If you're healthy and you don't sleep, you'll feel in a bad mood. But if you're depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. But, Benedetti adds, there's a catch: once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you'll have a 95% chance of relapse.

So pulling more all-nighters makes me feel better?

Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180123-can-staying-awake-beat-depression


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 25 2018, @12:27AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday January 25 2018, @12:27AM (#627481) Homepage Journal

    My degree is in Physics but I've been working as a coder since my Junior year back in the Pleistocene era.

    This because I knew lots of coders - SCO was once really in Santa Cruz - and they all worked at night.

    I decided that becoming a coder was my only hope for getting a real job.

    I often sleep through one or two days a week on my current contract. I was at first quite mortified that I was being so flaky but then their Engineering VP came right out and said "I don't care how or when you work".

    Strictly speaking it is illegal for consulting clients to set the hours that their consultants may work. It's one of the "20 Factors" that the IRS uses to determine whether you are a consultant or an employee.

    That is, which kind you are, in the eyes of the IRS, has nothing to do with any job title you may have or what was in a contract you signed: whether your are an employee or a consultant - again in the IRS - is strictly defined by the relationship you have with your employer or client.

    A while back this lead every last Microsoft contract programmer to sue MS for the job benefits that MS employees receive but that were denied to the contractors.

    The contractors prevailed.

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