Has anybody else ever done this?

I was in a study for Yale on Sept 24th wherein they were testing a new Functional MRI.

I guess it's some sort of new tech to keep people stimulated and from freakin out on the slab in the tunnel.

Anyway, they strapped me down with my head forward and said they were gonna show me images inside the MRI and then I had to rate how I felt about them.

They proceeded to show me literally the most horrific images of real shit I've ever seen. Later, the attending was like "Oh yeah, the guys' pictures are way worse."

I saw kids badly burned, suicides, public stonings, kid with a jaw blown off, breast cancer autoamputation; the worst stuff imaginable for 20 seconds at a time to where I started to imagine I worked for CSI to keep myself from gettin too worked up.

And now, I'm a little iffy about horror films, cause I was watchin Halloween 2 last week and I couldn't separate myself like usual. I turned it off a few times and came back til I finally finished.

Maybe those trials are a really bad idea.

how much money did they pay you? did you have ANY idea how gruesome it was going to be (if at all)? Did you sign away your rights to sue for emotional trauma before hand and was it clear to you at the time?

ZombieKitten said:

how much money did they pay you? did you have ANY idea how gruesome it was going to be (if at all)? Did you sign away your rights to sue for emotional trauma before hand and was it clear to you at the time?

Are you a lawyer?

Tremolina said:

ZombieKitten said:

how much money did they pay you? did you have ANY idea how gruesome it was going to be (if at all)? Did you sign away your rights to sue for emotional trauma before hand and was it clear to you at the time?

Are you a lawyer?

no, just curious!

PRNelson said:

As somebody who has conducted several psychological experiments, that sounds highly unethical.

exactly

I found it difficult to believe they would subject someone to this without warning or preparation

ZombieKitten said:

I reckon he fell asleep in there and dreamt a scene from clockwork orange

ZombieKitten said:

I reckon he fell asleep in there and dreamt a scene from clockwork orange

I love that movie so much. More now than I used to, actually.

Aaaanyway. Like others have said, sounds suspect. Regardless, why not just close your eyes and not see them? Maybe that was the idea.

Cerebus said:

ZombieKitten said:

I reckon he fell asleep in there and dreamt a scene from clockwork orange

I love that movie so much. More now than I used to, actually.

Aaaanyway. Like others have said, sounds suspect. Regardless, why not just close your eyes and not see them? Maybe that was the idea.

you mean like a normal person would shut their eyes?

but we do what we are TOLD!!!

ZombieKitten said:

Cerebus said:

I love that movie so much. More now than I used to, actually.

Aaaanyway. Like others have said, sounds suspect. Regardless, why not just close your eyes and not see them? Maybe that was the idea.

you mean like a normal person would shut their eyes?

but we do what we are TOLD!!!

Ummm....

Cerebus said:

ZombieKitten said:

you mean like a normal person would shut their eyes?

but we do what we are TOLD!!!

Ummm....

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment

ZombieKitten said:

Cerebus said:

Ummm....

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment

Well, yeah. But I'm ANTIsocial, ANTI-establishment, ANTI-society as we are currently living it, pretty much just ANTI in general. I would be the participant whose statistics were thrown out of the study for being too far out of line with the rest of the experiment. Effa doing what we're told... unless you're paying me, of course.

Cerebus said:

ZombieKitten said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...experiment

Well, yeah. But I'm ANTIsocial, ANTI-establishment, ANTI-society as we are currently living it, pretty much just ANTI in general. I would be the participant whose statistics were thrown out of the study for being too far out of line with the rest of the experiment. Effa doing what we're told... unless you're paying me, of course.

OP was paid he kept his eyes open and did whatever he was told

ZombieKitten said:

Cerebus said:

Well, yeah. But I'm ANTIsocial, ANTI-establishment, ANTI-society as we are currently living it, pretty much just ANTI in general. I would be the participant whose statistics were thrown out of the study for being too far out of line with the rest of the experiment. Effa doing what we're told... unless you're paying me, of course.

OP was paid he kept his eyes open and did whatever he was told

And that's still suspect at this point because they haven't explained what they were told beforehand. Did they know the images would be disturbing? Were they told there'd be a camera on their face or something? Did they not get their money if they couldn't explain what they'd just seen in detail afterwards? It doesn't sound like their eyes were being held open. I'm not easily offended (and may have seen a couple of the images in question), but I would have just closed my eyes if I knew I was getting a check and none of those requirements were applicable.

Cerebus said:

ZombieKitten said:

OP was paid he kept his eyes open and did whatever he was told

And that's still suspect at this point because they haven't explained what they were told beforehand. Did they know the images would be disturbing? Were they told there'd be a camera on their face or something? Did they not get their money if they couldn't explain what they'd just seen in detail afterwards? It doesn't sound like their eyes were being held open. I'm not easily offended (and may have seen a couple of the images in question), but I would have just closed my eyes if I knew I was getting a check and none of those requirements were applicable.

he better hurry up and answer all this

To keep a person from freaking out???... But wouldn't that actuallt freak them out more?

ZombieKitten said:

Cerebus said:

And that's still suspect at this point because they haven't explained what they were told beforehand. Did they know the images would be disturbing? Were they told there'd be a camera on their face or something? Did they not get their money if they couldn't explain what they'd just seen in detail afterwards? It doesn't sound like their eyes were being held open. I'm not easily offended (and may have seen a couple of the images in question), but I would have just closed my eyes if I knew I was getting a check and none of those requirements were applicable.

he better hurry up and answer all this

Sorry, i was out with the lady from the "wanna fuck" thread. Yup.

Ok. No, they didn't explain what the photos were gonna be at all. They just said there would be pictures and a rating system and they explained how the stupid controls worked.

There was no camera on my face that I know of, but like, its hard not to look. It's literally like 4 inches from your eyes.

I used to work in Clinical Research for phase III trials. Outpatient trials on meds that are already on the market but being tested for different indications.

I am not big on pharmaceuticals but I must say, it helped a lot of people out. Most of our subjects did not have health care. When in a trial they got free meds (or placebo which is proven to work 30% of the time), free blood work, physicals and much more info on the meds than they would get from a regular doctor.

I got into the field because I inquired about a sinus study. I rec'd a free CT scan. I did not qualify for the study but I ended up getting a job.

Our office specialized in Alzheimer's meds.

Shanti0608 said:

I used to work in Clinical Research for phase III trials. Outpatient trials on meds that are already on the market but being tested for different indications.

I am not big on pharmaceuticals but I must say, it helped a lot of people out. Most of our subjects did not have health care. When in a trial they got free meds (or placebo which is proven to work 30% of the time), free blood work, physicals and much more info on the meds than they would get from a regular doctor.

I got into the field because I inquired about a sinus study. I rec'd a free CT scan. I did not qualify for the study but I ended up getting a job.

Our office specialized in Alzheimer's meds.

That's cool that you got a job just by inquiring about a study.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Shanti0608 said:

I used to work in Clinical Research for phase III trials. Outpatient trials on meds that are already on the market but being tested for different indications.

I am not big on pharmaceuticals but I must say, it helped a lot of people out. Most of our subjects did not have health care. When in a trial they got free meds (or placebo which is proven to work 30% of the time), free blood work, physicals and much more info on the meds than they would get from a regular doctor.

I got into the field because I inquired about a sinus study. I rec'd a free CT scan. I did not qualify for the study but I ended up getting a job.

Our office specialized in Alzheimer's meds.

That's cool that you got a job just by inquiring about a study.

It worked out really well. I had just moved to the area and it started out being a part time thing, then full time. I ended up working for two different research facilities. Just went home for a visit and the doctor that I worked for before moving abroad offered me a job in their main office if I move back.

She met a group of us for dinner and paid for all of us. She is pretty cool, we had not seen her in three years.