Hmmm should I......

Tefal · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:59

Ok, so I'm at uni now, and we get he opertunity to take part in research experiments for money etc, (sent through and approved by university.)

So now the question, Do you think i should try this one (most money)(£40)

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We're looking for healthy male volunteers aged 18-45 interested in helping us with our research into looking into how drugs used to treat schizophrenia work.

This will involve taking a low oral dose of a commonly used antipsychotic drug and having an fMRI brain scan whilst carrying out various tasks.

This study is being carried out under the supervision of Prof. Bill Deakin and Dr Serdar Dursun, and has been approved by the NHS Research Ethics Committee and the ethics of Research on Human Beings of the University of Manchester

so what you reckon? I think I'm going to try it, anyone else done anything like it?

(don' think this counts as a medical thread but if it does mods please do whatever to it)

xen_ · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:03

I would say go for it if you feel safe doing it. It's more than likely to be fine and easy money. But I definitely wouldn't do it after hearing a story in the news ages ago where some guy became severely disabled from one of these tests.

Street · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:08

Get paid to take mind altering drugs? Sounds like a good deal to me..

ste_bla · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:09

£40 ? not a lot for whats seems a lot of hastle

Welshy · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:10

£40 does seem a little too cheap for me, I'd be willing if it was £80+ maybe

Glaucus · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:12

No risk, no money. That's why it's only £40. Depends if you could use £40 or not.

Angilion · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:15

I'd say it's too much risk for £40, but it's your brain.

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:22

Tefal said:
Ok, so I'm at uni now, and we get he opertunity to take part in research experiments for money etc, (sent through and approved by university.)

So now the question, Do you think i should try this one (most money)(£40)

so what you reckon? I think I'm going to try it, anyone else done anything like it?

(don' think this counts as a medical thread but if it does mods please do whatever to it)

LMAO.

A fellow Manchester student... I debated this earlier. Decided nah.

Tefal · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:25

jdickerson said:
LMAO.

A fellow Manchester student... I debated this earlier. Decided nah.

Cool you still in halls?

You doing the contact lens thing or the face pictures?

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:27

Tefal said:
Cool you still in halls?

You doing the contact lens thing or the face pictures?

I'm a PhD student... how I wish halls! (Freshers!!!!).

I don't think I can be bothered to do any of them... I'm sick of getting all these e-mails though.... grrrrrr....

Tefal · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:28

heh aye freshers week was good, but the ball was pants tbh, Still got chem lab coat pub crawl tomorrow

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:28

Tefal said:
heh aye freshers week was good, but the ball was pants tbh, Still got chem lab coat pub crawl tomorrow

You're doing Chemistry? If so, haha Stopford!

EDIT - didn't you guys have to pay a million pounds for the "fresher's pack" wth is that about?

badbob · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:29

Remember those people that ballooned up and got brain damage and limbs had to be amputated?

Not worth it.

Tefal · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:31

jdickerson said:
You're doing Chemistry? If so, haha Stopford!

EDIT - didn't you guys have to pay a million pounds for the "fresher's pack" wth is that about?

£20 for the ball ticket and the pack

tbh the drink where stupidly over priced there, the bar in our halls is much better. And baaa bar if lovely for the shooters.- edit wtf is stopford, that the chem building? ¬_¬

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:34

Tefal said:
£20 for the ball ticket and the pack tbh the drink where stupidly over priced there, the bar in our halls is much better. And baaa bar if lovely for the shooters.- edit wtf is stopford, that the chem building? ¬_¬

I thought Stopford was where Chem things are (opposite union, next to church... 60s building). I think the whole idea of a Freshers ball is a bit bizzare... unless everyone had dates etc.

If you can afford it, you can't beat lunch in Umami on Oxford Rd (£5 starter+main).... Beats the uni food places by far.

Monkey Puzzle · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:35

See if they do any malaria trials at your uni - they do them to test vaccines for malaria at mine and you get paid around £1500 in total - does mean getting malaria though which is apparently like severe flu for 2 weeks (though less risky due to daily monitoring and so on).

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:36

Monkey Puzzle said:
See if they do any malaria trials at your uni - they do them to test vaccines for malaria at mine and you get paid around £1500 in total - does mean getting malaria though which is apparently like severe flu for 2 weeks (though less risky due to daily monitoring and so on).

I hear they do a HIV one too.

(joke)

Carling · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:38

badbob said:
Remember those people that ballooned up and got brain damage and limbs had to be amputated?

Not worth it.

Yep, and if I remember correctly they went a nice shade of black.... :eek:

Tefal · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:42

jdickerson said:
I thought Stopford was where Chem things are (opposite union, next to church... 60s building). I think the whole idea of a Freshers ball is a bit bizzare... unless everyone had dates etc.

If you can afford it, you can't beat lunch in Umami on Oxford Rd (£5 starter+main).... Beats the uni food places by far.

Nah there's no fancy ball or anything it just means freshers only at the union basically.

what kind of food in this umami place?

What you studying anyway?

meghatronic · 24 Sep 2007 at 23:44

Tefal said:
Nah there's no fancy ball or anything it just means freshers only at the union basically.

what kind of food in this umami place?

What you studying anyway?

Japanese food, http://www.umami.cc for the menu. Failing that, find the Odder bars

I know you didn't ask for eating recommendations!

My PhD is Biochem.... but it is more computational biology now, title is to do with understanding the molecular nature of viral infetion.