The 10 Rules for Procrastination
The “drug” appears to have been injecting a “viral vector” (whatever that is) into the monkeys’ ventral striatum. Do you really want to fix your procrastination by injecting viruses into your brain? I wonder if there is a behavioural or biofeedback way to get a similar effect.
The research article (open access) is here: https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cub.2025.12.035
Do you really want to fix your procrastination by injecting viruses into your brain?
I haven’t read the article, does it suggest the virus is the way to fix procrastination? From the headlines it appears to me that they only found a mechanism, that doesn’t mean the methods used are applicable for human consumption
It says injecting the viral expression fixed the inhibition when they tried it on monkeys in the study. The headline says it was disrupted with a drug. Well what was the drug? The injection mentioned. It doesn’t sound nice. There’s also a Nature summary/clickbait article saying about the same things as the Wired article. I saw the Nature one first.
This sounds pretty standard as far as research goes. There’s experiments of a billion things done in animals which only prove or help understand how mechanisms work. From there to saying, “this is the exact same method we’ll use on people, this is practically done” it rarely happens that straight away. You have at least a decade on average of trials and ways to figure out which drugs are appropriate for release.
Unless you quote me a snippet from any of these articles in which the scientists are expressly saying “we are hoping to use a similar virus on people” I’d say you are jumping to conclusions.
It evokes the idea. Maybe not for everyone, but obviously for some.
injecting viruses into your brain
Have not read article. Virus and bacteria - plus everything else - can be utilized for resonant/dissonant purposes. All vira isn’t ‘bad’, and neither is all bacteria.Much of biotech evolves around extracting/converting these buggers - small systems - to do positive resonant work. A virus can be deactivated, or emulated, to activate our latent bio systems, or it can be deadly in the wrong environment, and a life giver in another.
Besides, we are already infested with invading critters/lifeforms in every part of our bodies, and we would die without them…
The biggest threat is big pharma that always tweak research data/consequences for profits…
