BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:16010101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:16010101T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dr. Matthew Lennon: A History of Self-Experimentation in Neuroscie nce - Dr Matthew Lennon (University of Oxford) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210217T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210217T170000 UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d0668a8f-11bf-42a1-a226-007fc15087 08/ DESCRIPTION:Self-Experimentation has shaped the history of neurological re search. Isaac Newton pushed a needle in his eye socket to map out the visu al distribution of the retina. Angelo Ruffini resected sensitive parts of his own hand to discover sensory nerve endings\, including the Ruffini Cor puscle. Oliver Sacks experimented with morphine to better understand subje ctive drug effects on patients. Kevin Warwick pioneered prosthetics resear ch when he inserted an electrode array into his median nerve allowing him to control a robotic arm more than 10\,000 kilometers away. Phillip Kenned y had electrodes inserted into the speech centres of his own brain to try to decode the neural signals of human speech. Self-experimenters have many motivations\; to avoid institutional roadblocks\, to risk themselves rath er than others\, to gain subjective research insights otherwise inaccessib le to volunteers\, to prove a concept otherwise too risky to test. Self-ex perimentation has little to no legal or institutional regulation\, which c an complicate the recognition and publication of the work. In the future\, self-experimentation will have a critical role to play in neurology resea rch but the practice will need to balance both the zeal of the individual researcher and regulation necessary to institutional recognition. \nSpeake rs:\nDr Matthew Lennon (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Venue to be announced URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d0668a8f-11bf-42a1-a226-007fc15087 08/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Dr. Matthew Lennon: A History of Self-Experimentation in Neuroscience - Dr Matthew Lennon (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
