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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
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Thursday January 25 2018, @12:10PM (4 children)
Thanks for noticing it was missing! It is one of the few places in the story editing process where the editors have a chance to creatively express themselves. I, forone, can attest there are times when I have a LOT of fun coming up with something deep or witty or even insipid to fill in that field. There are times, though, when I start to wonder if anyone even notices the field is there.
That said, the "dept" line is just a field to be filled in for a story.[*] The submitter of a story may propose a dept line in their submission. Then the story goes into the submission queue.
When an editor selects a story from the submission queue, they are faced with two situations:
Generally, we try to have every story reviewed by a different editor before it "goes live".[***] The "2nding editor" can remove the dept line, accept it as-is, or replace it with something else.
In the vast majority of cases, somebody comes up with something to put in the dept line. One in a while, though, the Muses [wikipedia.org] fail us and "we got nuthin'". There have been times when I would spend 10 or even 15 minutes trying to come up with some kind of interesting dept line.
Here, it seems, creativity failed us and the field was left blank.
[*] Occasionally, there will be a discussion on the #editorial channel on IRC. "Any ideas on a dept line for $foo?" Some of the most creative foolery I have ever seen has followed from such an entry. And, at other times, comes up with just *crickets*.
[**] User-suggested dept line came about as a request from the community.
[***] It does not take long for things to turn into "word soup" and a mistake becomes opaque to the original editor, but a second set of eyes can readily see it. As all of this work is done by volunteers, this does not always happen, but we generally do succeed in 2nding the majority of storuies htat make it onto the site.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday January 25 2018, @02:18PM (3 children)
Oh, I notice!
The "dept" line, the "This page was generated by a [xxxxx] of [yyyyy]s for [zzzzzzz] and the MOTD at the bottom right are all fantastic little touches that make my day just a little more meaningful. More to the point, they're a breath of fresh air compared to all the ridiculously sanitized, disingenuous, corporate-friendly mantras that infect most other websites.* It's proudly nerdy and unashamedly counter-culture. Keep it up!
*I won't mention any names but a site that's not red defnititely sanitized themselves.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday January 25 2018, @02:20PM
s/defnititely/definitely/
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Friday January 26 2018, @01:55AM (1 child)
Yes, I generally look at all of those... especially the fortune at the bottom of the page.
Here's another one to add to your list. "Wait, there's another one?" you ask? Yep! Look at the "Response Headers" returned from a page request and there is an "X-Bender" entry, too!
For example, here's the X-Bender line from the page I loaded to reply to you: "X-Bender There! That oughtta convert a few tailgaters."
Enjoy!
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday January 26 2018, @04:47AM
Fantastic, thanks!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?