Adults: Healthy Volunteers
A Family Study, What Impacts Mood, Sleep, and Energy?
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This research study is enrolling people to help us understand how physical activity, daily rhythms, and light affect mental health.
Attention and Emotional Memory
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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.
Brain and Body Imaging Studies
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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.
Brain and Cognition Research Study
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Researchers are enrolling healthy volunteers for an outpatient research study to learn more about how the brain works.
Brain Imaging Studies
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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.
How Emotional States affect Decision-Making
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How we feel can impact the choices we make. Feelings of sadness, stress, or pain can change our behavior. Researchers want to learn more about the choices we make when feeling bad.
Memories and How the Brain Works
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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.
Neural and Psychological Mechanisms of Pain Perception
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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.
Study of the Brain, Thinking and Memory
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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.
TMS and Brain Function
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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.
Understanding the brain, mood, memory, and thinking
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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.