Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college student would earn about $1,000 to stay at the lab for 11 days. An elderly person would earn more, and a blind person would earn the most. The lab advertises for males and females of ages 18-30, elderly people of ages 65-85, and blind people...
Before accepting a willing, needy student, however, the lab insists on a rigorous screening process that takes about a month to complete. Among the criteria: the person cannot have crossed more than three time zones in the past six months, and the person must have been drug-free for years and must not have smoked or had an alcoholic drink in the last month...
...addition to psychological and physical exams, the subject must agree to certain conditions, which Jayne admits are daunting--especially for college students. During the three weeks prior to the entering the lab, a subject must refrain from having caffeine and must agree to go to bed and wake up within half an hour of the same time...
Jayne cites the clinical contact with subjects as one of the benefits of working in the lab. Huynh says he spent a lot of time with subjects. "I played Monopoly with them or just talked to them, to get their life story or something. They [the researchers] told us not to get into political arguments so their [subjects'] temperatures wouldn't be shooting...
...brought them in on five separate visits, for five days each. We wanted to monitor them at different times in their cycle, to monitor the progression of their cycle. The first day was for getting accustomed to the lab and was a regular day. The second day, we started the light therapy. [This meant] turning it up very bright, then turning it off for brief periods of time. We would get blood drawn every hour to see how hormone levels change," Wu says...