Autoexperimentation - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

[Werner Forssmann: "the typical man before his time!" - self-experiment shows feasibility of cardiac catheterization]

30 Jan 2008 Going trough the literature on the history of cardiac catheterization, it is obvious that some authors tend to imprecise reporting or omitting important facts; thus, the truth has been misrepresented deceiving conception. This also applies to ... Read more...

Self-experiments and analytical relapse prevention.

30 Dec 2007 Patients give many reasons for why they have not kept up with their resolutions; research shows that many of these causal attributions are wrong. This article provides a tool to help patients sort out causes of and constraints on their behavior, in ... Read more...

Schedule discrimination in a mixed schedule: implications for models of the variable-ratio, variable-interval rate difference.

Dec 2007 In Experiment 1, each of three humans knowledgeable about operant schedules used mouse clicks to respond to a "work key" presented on a monitor. On a random half of the presentations, work-key responses that completed a variable ratio (VR) 12 ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Autoexperimentation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Werner Forssmann: "the typical man before his time!" - self-experiment shows feasibility of cardiac catheterization] 30 Jan 2008
• Self-experiments and analytical relapse prevention. 30 Dec 2007
• Schedule discrimination in a mixed schedule: implications for models of the variable-ratio, variable-interval rate difference. Dec 2007
• Truly personalised medicine: self-experimentation in medical discovery. 27 Oct 2007
• Physician test thyself. 27 Feb 2007
• The bionic CIO: Harvard Medical School's technology chief tests a controversial implant on himself. 14 Jun 2006
• [Physicians who experimented on themselves: risk-taking among physicians and researchers] 30 Mar 2006
• Colonoscopy in the sitting position: lessons learned from self-colonoscopy by using a small-caliber, variable-stiffness colonoscope. 30 Dec 2005
• [The Italian contributions to the history of salicylates] 30 Dec 2005
• A living will clause for supporters of animal experimentation. 30 Dec 2005
• The 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. 29 Nov 2005
• Who goes first? 30 Oct 2005
• [Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine researched Helicobacter pylori on himself: knowledge from the bacterial culture drink] 11 Oct 2005
• [The first to go--physicians who experimented on themselves] 6 Sep 2005
• Self-experimentation, ethics and efficacy. 30 Mar 2005
• [Werner Forssmann tested the first heart catheter on himself. For this reason he was fired by the chief physician] 17 Aug 2004
• Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. 30 Mar 2004
• [Auto-experimentation (II)] 29 Jan 2004
• [Carrión-disease--history of a long-forgotten malady] 23 Jan 2004
• [Auto-experimentation (I). Understanding digestion and invention of anesthesia] 13 Jan 2004

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Technical information about 'Autoexperimentation'

Definition: Intentionally using oneself as a research subject.

Descriptor UI: D032762

Alternative terms: Autoexperimentation; Self-Experimentation; Self Experimentation;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E05.445.100;

History Note: 2003; use HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION 1999-2002