> So finding ways to help the brain clean itself — perhaps by inducing those slow electrical waves — might prevent a wide array of disorders.
Even before getting to the end this had me thinking of binaural beats. Back in college there was a beat that I would use whenever I was super tired and had a lot to do, and it'd help me refresh via a quick 20m nap (sometimes the nap itself wasn't even needed; just to let my mind be taken by the beat for the duration). If it's the case that a part of the effect is to trigger a "deep clean" (I've wondered on and off what's really happening), then this just may become a way to reduce said disorders...
Even before getting to the end this had me thinking of binaural beats. Back in college there was a beat that I would use whenever I was super tired and had a lot to do, and it'd help me refresh via a quick 20m nap (sometimes the nap itself wasn't even needed; just to let my mind be taken by the beat for the duration). If it's the case that a part of the effect is to trigger a "deep clean" (I've wondered on and off what's really happening), then this just may become a way to reduce said disorders...