From: James Ganong (JGanong@webtv.net)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 13:17:33 MDT
If this is accurate, this will be a nice addition to the chemical
augmentation
toolkit.
attached mail follows:
I was watching "Sci-Tech" on the Discovery channel this weekend and saw
something cool. They have developed a new medication for people with
narcolepsy (sp) that allows them to stay awake for 12 hours per dose. The
Army ran some tests on it and found that troops given the drug can stay
alert up to 72 hours without sleep!
A group of solders were given repetitive tasks to do on a computer during
the study to test their mental alertness, and it was shown that although
they began to feel physically tired after about 24-30 hours, their
decision making ability did not start to degrade until the third day
without sleep.
Some researchers are concerned that long term exposer to the drug will
interfere with normal sleep cycles, but so far no adverse side effects have
been found.
Pretty cool, eh?
-C
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