Adults: Healthy Volunteers

Researchers are looking for healthy volunteers to help us learn more about how the brain works. We need to learn more about how the brain works so that we can learn more about how brains work in people with mood and anxiety disorders.

Several investigational studies are measuring proteins in the brain and  body using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) technology to better understand the biological basis of mental illness and to eventually pave the way for new treatments.

Researchers are enrolling healthy volunteers for an outpatient research study to learn more about how the brain works.

Several research studies are measuring proteins in the brain using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) technology to better understand the biological basis of mental illness and to eventually pave the way for new treatments.

Are you a healthy young adult with no neurological, psychiatric, or general medical condition 18-25 and interested in learning more about how your brain processes language? If so, you may be eligible to participate in the pilot phase of a new research study at NIMH.

People in good health are invited to participate as a research study volunteer. Study participants play a vital role in biomedical research by helping scientists advance knowledge and better understand, treat, and ultimately, improve health.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is conducting this study to create a list of healthy research volunteers who are interested in participating in additional NIMH studies.

Researchers are enrolling healthy volunteers for an outpatient research study to learn about the brain. A part of the study evaluates how the brain activates and represents memories. Participants will watch videos created in the “1 Second Everyday App” during a brain scan (MRI) and again during a MEG (magnetoencephalography) scan.

People feel different levels of pain. These differences are caused by social, cultural, and biological factors. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are trying to better understand the different factors that impact pain and how people experience pain.

This part of the facial recognition study is enrolling healthy adults without psychiatric conditions, between the ages of 18 and 35, who are in good medical health, and have a bad memory for faces. The overall purpose of the study is to learn about the brain, thinking and memory in people with and without autism spectrum disorders.

This research study seeks healthy adult participants to explore how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) affects the brain. TMS is a non-invasive method which uses a magnet placed outside the head to stimulate precise locations inside the brain.

This research study seeks to learn about the brain, moods, memory, thinking and concentration in healthy adults and compare them to those who have HIV infections.