[stylist] off-topic, final circadian post
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Wed Oct 5 23:50:46 UTC 2011
Peter,
I applied to be a part of the study, and was ultimately rejected
because my BMI was to high. I did talk to them a lot, and I was
impressed with the thoroughness of the effort. Yes, they do
establish your base sleep patterns etc., before moving on to anything else.
I think, sometimes, it is considered cool, in the NFB, to be against
any research dealing with blindness. While I think there has been,
and is a lot of bad blindness research out there, not all of it is bad.
I for one periodically have pretty major problems sleeping. I have
been up since 2:30 this morning, and it is now nearly 7:00 p.m., and
I am fading fast!
Dave
At 08:52 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:
>Good morning everyone,
>
> Here's a final thought as well so we can get back to writing matters.
>The thing that troubles me about this whole thing is that whether the
>subjects be blind or sighted nothing has been said as to whether
>participants undergo a baseline sleep study to rule out known sleep
>disorders before they're enrolled in the melatonin study. If this is being
>done that makes me feel better. Otherwise this is nothing more than the kind
>of pseudo research we've read about done on the blind in the past everything
>from teaching us how to eat properly to whether or not the inability to see
>light or not effects our sexual activity. This is a very sensitive issue
>with me and I'm sure others whose unusual behavior and sleep-wake patterns
>were blamed on blindness when a sleep study would have revealed the real
>culpret. Now I'm done as well.
>
>Peter Donahue
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