‘QS’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test ”, Gwern 2017
- “Acne: a Good Quantified Self Topic ”, Gwern 2019
- “Magnesium Self-Experiments ”, Gwern 2013
- “Redshift Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2012
- “Dual n-Back FAQ ”, Gwern 2009
- “LSD Microdosing RCT ”, Gwern 2012
- “Nootropics ”, Gwern 2010
- “Bacopa Quasi-Experiment ”, Gwern 2014
- “ZMA Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2017
- “CO2/ventilation Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2016
- “Lunar Circadian Rhythms ”, Gwern 2013
- “Wooden Pillow ”, Gwern 2008
- “Potassium Sleep Experiments ”, Gwern 2012
- “Caffeine Wakeup Experiment ”, Gwern 2013
- “Vitamin D Sleep Experiments ”, Gwern 2012
- “Treadmill Desk Observations ”, Gwern 2012
- “Bitter Melon for Blood Glucose ”, Gwern 2015
- “Diet Variance: Soylent Study ”, Gwern 2013
- “Weather and My Productivity ”, Gwern 2013
- “Buckminster Fuller’s Fog Gun ”, Gwern 2009
- “2013 LLLT Self-Experiment ”, Gwern 2013
- “2014 Spirulina Randomized Self-Experiment ”, Gwern 2014
- “LW Anchoring Experiment ”, Gwern 2012
- “2013 Lewis Meditation Results ”, Gwern 2013
- Links
- “The Harem of an Autist ”
- “6 Years of Meditation Data Reveals a Depressing Picture: A Mini Meta-Analysis Showing Meditation Made Me More Anxious, Frustrated, Depressed, and Less Social ”, Syler 2025
- “Do You Need Permission from the Government to Do Independent Research? ”, Dynomight 2025
- “Meditating More Made Me Sleep Better and Feel Worse: Findings from a Year’s worth of N = 1 Experiments on Meditation ”, Syler 2025
- “An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer ”, Forčić et al 2024
- “Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Analysis ”, Mhanna et al 2024
- “Is Target-Based Drug Discovery Efficient? Discovery and ‘Off-Target’ Mechanisms of All Drugs ”, Sadri 2023
- “Who Is Bryan Johnson’s Doctor? Meet Oliver Zolman ”, Mikhail 2023
- “Large Language Models Are Few-Shot Health Learners ”, Liu et al 2023
- “Case Report: Prolonged Amelioration of Mild Red-Green Color Vision Deficiency following Psilocybin Mushroom Use ”, Barnett et al 2023
- “Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition ”, Lu & Zhong 2023
- “Sleep Experiments. Knowledge Production through Self-Tracking ”, Zillien et al 2023
- “Personalized Microbiome-Driven Effects of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on Human Glucose Tolerance ”, Suez et al 2022
- “Assessing Variability in Vascular Response to Cocoa With Personal Devices: A Series of Double-Blind Randomized Crossover n-Of-1 Trials ”, Bapir et al 2022
- “A Simple Exercise to Strengthen the Lower Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastroesophageal Reflux: An Autobiographical Case Report ”, Karrfalt 2022
- “Trips and Neurotransmitters: Discovering Principled Patterns across 6,850 Hallucinogenic Experiences ”, Ballentine et al 2022
- “Patient-Driven Findings of Genetic Associations for PANS and PANDAS ”, Horvath & Keating 2021
- “Results of a 5-Year n-Of-1 Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Gene Therapy Experiment ”, Hanley et al 2021
- “Amateur Hour: Improving Knowledge Diversity in Psychological and Behavioral Science by Harnessing Contributions from Amateurs ”, Mohlhenrich & Krpan 2021
- “Personalized Machine Learning of Depressed Mood Using Wearables ”, Shah et al 2021
- “Citizen Science: Asking Questions of Psychedelic Microdosing ”, Cameron 2021
- “Human Postprandial Responses to Food and Potential for Precision Nutrition ”, Berry et al 2020
- “Follow-Up: I Found Two Identical Packs of Skittles, among 468 Packs With a Total of 27,740 Skittles ”, Farmer 2019
- “Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among Ethics Committees and Prominent Scientists ”, Hanley et al 2019
- “Dynamic Human Environmental Exposome Revealed by Longitudinal Personal Monitoring ”, Jiang et al 2018
- “DNA.Land: A Digital Biobank Using a Massive Crowdsourcing Approach ”, Yuan et al 2017
- “Sensory Augmentation: Integration of an Auditory Compass Signal into Human Perception of Space ”, Schumann & O’Regan 2017
- “Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information ”, Li et al 2016
- “Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster ”, Mitchell & Wartinger 2016
- “Got Kidney Stones? Ride a Roller Coaster ”, Gleason & Wartinger 2016
- “Honey Bee Sting Pain Index by Body Location ”, Smith 2014
- “Perceiving Invisible Light through a Somatosensory Cortical Prosthesis ”, Thomson et al 2013
- “Make Yourself Healthy: Martha Rotter’s Search for the Cause of Acne ”, Roberts 2012
- “Self-Experimentation and Its Role in Medical Research ”, Weisse 2012
- “The Measured Life: Do You Know How Much REM Sleep You Got Last Night? New Types of Devices That Monitor Activity, Sleep, Diet, and Even Mood Could Make Us Healthier and More Productive ”, Singer 2011
- “The Doctor Who Drank Infectious Broth, Gave Himself an Ulcer, and Solved a Medical Mystery: The Medical Elite Thought They Knew What Caused Ulcers and Stomach Cancer. But They Were Wrong—And Didn’t Want to Hear Otherwise ”, Weintraub 2010
- “Using N-Of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and save Costs ”, Scuffham et al 2010
- “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of My Self-Experimentation ”, Roberts 2010
- “The Major Role of Clinicians in the Discovery of Off-Label Drug Therapies ”, DeMonaco et al 2006
- “Discovery That a Melanocortin Regulates Sexual Functions in Male and Female Humans ”, Hadley 2005
- “Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine ”, Altman 1998
- “Self-Experimentation in Nutrition Research ”, Widdowson 1993
- “The Diet Problem ”, Dantzig 1990
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! § Testing Bloodhounds ”, Feynman 1985
- “Self-Experimentation: A Call for Change ”, Neuringer 1981
- “Nail Growth: 35 Years of Observation ”, Bean 1980
- “The Problem of Learning to Teach ”, Halmos 1975
- “William Bennett Bean: The Background ”, Leavell 1974
- “Nail Growth: 30 Years of Observation ”, Bean 1974
- “Effects of Sexual Activity on Beard Growth in Man ”, Anonymous 1970
- “Nail Growth: Twenty-Five Years’ Observation ”, Bean 1968
- “Nail Growth: A Twenty-Year Study ”, Bean 1963
- “A Note on Fingernail Growth ”, Bean 1953
- “Experimental Human Scurvy ”, Crandon et al 1940
- “English Nurse’s Devotion [Gas Gangrene Self-Experiment] ”
- “Ten Years of Logging My Life ”
- “How Harmful Is Music, Really? ”
- “Intention-To-Treat Experiments ”
- “Alexey Guzey’s Homepage ”, Guzey 2025
- “Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs: A Randomized Clinical Trial ”
- “Caffeine Cycling Self-Experiment ”
- “Doing a Self-Randomized Study of the Impacts of Glycine on Sleep ”
- “Digital Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease: the Mobile/wearable Devices Opportunity ”
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- Wikipedia (6)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test ”, Gwern 2017
“Acne: a Good Quantified Self Topic ”, Gwern 2019
“Magnesium Self-Experiments ”, Gwern 2013
“Redshift Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2012
“Dual n-Back FAQ ”, Gwern 2009
“LSD Microdosing RCT ”, Gwern 2012
“Nootropics ”, Gwern 2010
“Bacopa Quasi-Experiment ”, Gwern 2014
“ZMA Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2017
“CO2/ventilation Sleep Experiment ”, Gwern 2016
“Lunar Circadian Rhythms ”, Gwern 2013
“Wooden Pillow ”, Gwern 2008
“Potassium Sleep Experiments ”, Gwern 2012
“Caffeine Wakeup Experiment ”, Gwern 2013
“Vitamin D Sleep Experiments ”, Gwern 2012
“Treadmill Desk Observations ”, Gwern 2012
“Bitter Melon for Blood Glucose ”, Gwern 2015
“Diet Variance: Soylent Study ”, Gwern 2013
“Weather and My Productivity ”, Gwern 2013
“Buckminster Fuller’s Fog Gun ”, Gwern 2009
“2013 LLLT Self-Experiment ”, Gwern 2013
“2014 Spirulina Randomized Self-Experiment ”, Gwern 2014
“LW Anchoring Experiment ”, Gwern 2012
“2013 Lewis Meditation Results ”, Gwern 2013
Links
“The Harem of an Autist ”
“6 Years of Meditation Data Reveals a Depressing Picture: A Mini Meta-Analysis Showing Meditation Made Me More Anxious, Frustrated, Depressed, and Less Social ”, Syler 2025
“Do You Need Permission from the Government to Do Independent Research? ”, Dynomight 2025
Do you need permission from the government to do independent research? :
“Meditating More Made Me Sleep Better and Feel Worse: Findings from a Year’s worth of N = 1 Experiments on Meditation ”, Syler 2025
“An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer ”, Forčić et al 2024
An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer
“Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Analysis ”, Mhanna et al 2024
“Is Target-Based Drug Discovery Efficient? Discovery and ‘Off-Target’ Mechanisms of All Drugs ”, Sadri 2023
Is Target-Based Drug Discovery Efficient? Discovery and ‘Off-Target’ Mechanisms of All Drugs
“Who Is Bryan Johnson’s Doctor? Meet Oliver Zolman ”, Mikhail 2023
“Large Language Models Are Few-Shot Health Learners ”, Liu et al 2023
“Case Report: Prolonged Amelioration of Mild Red-Green Color Vision Deficiency following Psilocybin Mushroom Use ”, Barnett et al 2023
“Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition ”, Lu & Zhong 2023
“Sleep Experiments. Knowledge Production through Self-Tracking ”, Zillien et al 2023
Sleep Experiments. Knowledge Production through Self-Tracking
“Personalized Microbiome-Driven Effects of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on Human Glucose Tolerance ”, Suez et al 2022
Personalized microbiome-driven effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on human glucose tolerance
“Assessing Variability in Vascular Response to Cocoa With Personal Devices: A Series of Double-Blind Randomized Crossover n-Of-1 Trials ”, Bapir et al 2022
“A Simple Exercise to Strengthen the Lower Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastroesophageal Reflux: An Autobiographical Case Report ”, Karrfalt 2022
“Trips and Neurotransmitters: Discovering Principled Patterns across 6,850 Hallucinogenic Experiences ”, Ballentine et al 2022
Trips and neurotransmitters: Discovering principled patterns across 6,850 hallucinogenic experiences
“Patient-Driven Findings of Genetic Associations for PANS and PANDAS ”, Horvath & Keating 2021
Patient-Driven Findings of Genetic Associations for PANS and PANDAS
“Results of a 5-Year n-Of-1 Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Gene Therapy Experiment ”, Hanley et al 2021
Results of a 5-Year n-of-1 Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Gene Therapy Experiment
“Amateur Hour: Improving Knowledge Diversity in Psychological and Behavioral Science by Harnessing Contributions from Amateurs ”, Mohlhenrich & Krpan 2021
“Personalized Machine Learning of Depressed Mood Using Wearables ”, Shah et al 2021
Personalized machine learning of depressed mood using wearables
“Citizen Science: Asking Questions of Psychedelic Microdosing ”, Cameron 2021
Citizen Science: Asking questions of psychedelic microdosing
“Human Postprandial Responses to Food and Potential for Precision Nutrition ”, Berry et al 2020
Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition
“Follow-Up: I Found Two Identical Packs of Skittles, among 468 Packs With a Total of 27,740 Skittles ”, Farmer 2019
Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
“Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among Ethics Committees and Prominent Scientists ”, Hanley et al 2019
“Dynamic Human Environmental Exposome Revealed by Longitudinal Personal Monitoring ”, Jiang et al 2018
Dynamic Human Environmental Exposome Revealed by Longitudinal Personal Monitoring
“DNA.Land: A Digital Biobank Using a Massive Crowdsourcing Approach ”, Yuan et al 2017
DNA.Land: A digital biobank using a massive crowdsourcing approach
“Sensory Augmentation: Integration of an Auditory Compass Signal into Human Perception of Space ”, Schumann & O’Regan 2017
Sensory augmentation: integration of an auditory compass signal into human perception of space
“Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information ”, Li et al 2016
“Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster ”, Mitchell & Wartinger 2016
“Got Kidney Stones? Ride a Roller Coaster ”, Gleason & Wartinger 2016
“Honey Bee Sting Pain Index by Body Location ”, Smith 2014
“Perceiving Invisible Light through a Somatosensory Cortical Prosthesis ”, Thomson et al 2013
Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis
“Make Yourself Healthy: Martha Rotter’s Search for the Cause of Acne ”, Roberts 2012
Make yourself healthy: Martha Rotter’s search for the cause of acne :
“Self-Experimentation and Its Role in Medical Research ”, Weisse 2012
“The Measured Life: Do You Know How Much REM Sleep You Got Last Night? New Types of Devices That Monitor Activity, Sleep, Diet, and Even Mood Could Make Us Healthier and More Productive ”, Singer 2011
“The Doctor Who Drank Infectious Broth, Gave Himself an Ulcer, and Solved a Medical Mystery: The Medical Elite Thought They Knew What Caused Ulcers and Stomach Cancer. But They Were Wrong—And Didn’t Want to Hear Otherwise ”, Weintraub 2010
“Using N-Of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and save Costs ”, Scuffham et al 2010
Using N-of-1 trials to improve patient management and save costs
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of My Self-Experimentation ”, Roberts 2010
“The Major Role of Clinicians in the Discovery of Off-Label Drug Therapies ”, DeMonaco et al 2006
The Major Role of Clinicians in the Discovery of Off-Label Drug Therapies
“Discovery That a Melanocortin Regulates Sexual Functions in Male and Female Humans ”, Hadley 2005
Discovery that a melanocortin regulates sexual functions in male and female humans
“Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine ”, Altman 1998
Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine :
“Self-Experimentation in Nutrition Research ”, Widdowson 1993
“The Diet Problem ”, Dantzig 1990
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! § Testing Bloodhounds ”, Feynman 1985
“Self-Experimentation: A Call for Change ”, Neuringer 1981
“Nail Growth: 35 Years of Observation ”, Bean 1980
“The Problem of Learning to Teach ”, Halmos 1975
“William Bennett Bean: The Background ”, Leavell 1974
“Nail Growth: 30 Years of Observation ”, Bean 1974
“Effects of Sexual Activity on Beard Growth in Man ”, Anonymous 1970
“Nail Growth: Twenty-Five Years’ Observation ”, Bean 1968
“Nail Growth: A Twenty-Year Study ”, Bean 1963
“A Note on Fingernail Growth ”, Bean 1953
“Experimental Human Scurvy ”, Crandon et al 1940
“English Nurse’s Devotion [Gas Gangrene Self-Experiment] ”
“Ten Years of Logging My Life ”
“How Harmful Is Music, Really? ”
“Intention-To-Treat Experiments ”
“Alexey Guzey’s Homepage ”, Guzey 2025
“Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs: A Randomized Clinical Trial ”
Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to 4 Antihypertensive Drugs: A Randomized Clinical Trial
“Caffeine Cycling Self-Experiment ”
“Doing a Self-Randomized Study of the Impacts of Glycine on Sleep ”
Doing a self-randomized study of the impacts of glycine on sleep :
“Digital Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease: the Mobile/wearable Devices Opportunity ”
Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: the mobile/wearable devices opportunity
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