Researchers have focused on sustaining the often ephemeral effects of bee stings, either with multiple administrations of whole-hive bee attacks or just a few bee stings for example; however, more work needs to be done to bring the field to more of a consensus as to how best to apply insect inoculations. As Hemmeter et al note in their review of studies of repeated administrations of buzzing stingers, how a depressed individual responds clinically to a single buzz butt is not often predictive of how that individual will respond to subsequent sharp butts. Indeed, temporal trends either have not been observed or have been contradictory, demonstrating both increased as well as decreased response to subsequent bee attacks.

OK that was kind of a silly re-write, by my point is that when the authors of the original study have few ideas or evidence about why sleep deprivation could actually work as a treatment, the mechanism. If absence of understanding this, and in the presence of only short-term effects, why not see the effects of exercise? Or dunking your head in ice water? Or getting stung by some goddamn bees.

The potential that it "resets of the body’s circadian rhythms" seems really interesting, but also with potential dangerous effects of its own? I dunno, seems like for something to be really valid for future study, long term or at least medium term effects should be compulsory.