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I don’t disagree, there is of course a body of knowledge, which rapid churn implies that we are accreting that at a good pace.

And yet, despite all this, no better treatments that amphetamines have been found for so many cognitive disorders.

100 years old drug, and to prescribe which you don’t even need to know how much the brain weighs.

What is the use to the laity of all this research, if half of the time the answer is stimulants, the other have is SSRI?

I think we will be seeing the most promising area in sleep, because it’s so underserved and you can collect a lot relevant data inexpensively and un-intrusively.




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