The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

(economist.com)

29 points | by Anon84 2 hours ago ago

20 comments

  • kbrannigan 26 minutes ago

    To get a job at our company take three pills of brainOzempic every day to maximize productivity.

    We have our NeuroLinkBrain Implant plugin to AI agent , so that you can vibe code 24/7 . To maximize shareholder value.

  • SoupBread 25 minutes ago

    It sounds like is a genuine treatment for those who suffer from narcolepsy, and everything else is merely speculative and has seem pretty bad side-effects.

    • bitexploder 12 minutes ago

      There is evidence that some forms of ADHD are effectively just the brain falling asleep rapidly and then waking up. This form cam be attenuated with norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor alone. Presents with ADHD like symptoms. But it’s a new thing most likely. Called “Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome”.

  • Anon84 2 hours ago
  • madhacker 15 minutes ago

    "Others are exploring their use for treating sleep apnoea, which is a far more common disorder." CPAP biomedical equipment manufacturer watch out!

  • fishfasell 20 minutes ago

    Despite the stigma surrounding semaglutide, its impact across various health conditions has been remarkable. Bringing that same level of innovation to cognitive disorders could be truly transformative for society

  • WalterGR 34 minutes ago
    • Kinrany 9 minutes ago

      Interesting comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264602

      > IMO the much more likely explanation is that the brain uses contrastive learning somewhere. [...] Instead of using calculus and outer products to calculate derivatives, you feed real data and false data forward through the network and each neuron tracks and trains on the difference.

      • Kinrany a few seconds ago

        Separately, do I understand the idea correctly:

        - when learning on the real examples, just propagate forward

        - when learning on the fake examples, first generate them by propagating white noise backward

      • Kinrany 2 minutes ago

        I'm curious if there is an explanation for it not being more common to sleep like dolphins do, small parts of the brain at a time.

  • fennec-posix 2 hours ago

    If this means I don't have to take Methylphenidate to function 100% all the time and as a result feel tremendously anxious 100% all the time. SIGN ME UP.

    • didgeoridoo 7 minutes ago

      Adding guanfacine (Intuniv) to my methylphenidate took the weird anxious-angry edge off. Would be nice to not have to take one med to fix the side effects of the other, though.

    • SV_BubbleTime 7 minutes ago

      You sure about that math?

  • almost_usual 31 minutes ago

    Sleep less and sit more. What a species we’ve become.

  • livinglist 23 minutes ago

    24/7 stock market, least sleep needed, most AI piled, I’m very excited!

  • EA-3167 an hour ago

    The second I read the print in Nature a bit ago I knew some version would show up here. I swear I’ve met deployed Marines less obsessed with staying awake through chemistry than some people here.

  • copperx 2 hours ago

    A better modafinil? Sign me up.

  • ValdikSS an hour ago

    Hooray fatal insomnia

  • steele 42 minutes ago

    Vegetable diarrhea, hypothyroidism medication defect causes hyperthyroidism, overseas underground labs are preparing for US govt promoted SARM goblin hordes, and the US Armed Services want to measure the gonads of 17yo recruits. Imma sit this one out.

  • acosmism 39 minutes ago

    wow. now i'm really excited for the future