Feel anxious when your body goes into "fight or flight?" You may be eligible to participate in a research study to learn how difficult emotions, such as anxiety and fear, relate to feelings in the body. Compensation provided.
The goal of this interview is to gather a clinician's perspective on the feasibility and potential integration of a new Geriatric Functional Assessment System (GFAS) into their clinical practice. This proposed system is a clinic-based wearable device designed to collect visual and motion data from older adults during their primary care visits that will help assess physical function. Its goal is to collect and process data, apply machine learning, and enable clinicians to identify early signs of functional decline.
Are you 21+ and regularly drink alcohol? You may be eligible for a study to help us learn what people think about alcohol. Participants who complete the study can earn up to $275 in virtual gift cards.
Are you interested in psychology? Are you interested in brain research? If so, you may be able to take part in a study to learn more about the impact of personality traits and the brain on decision-making. Compensation provided.
Are you interested in an eye-tracking study? Participate in our study! We are giving $15/hour or 1 SONA credit (plus 0.5 extra travel credit). This study is approximately one hour long. This is a research study and not a clinical treatment study. We are researching where people look while they listen to stories and view pictures about such stories. You are eligible to participate if you are 18 years or older, a native speaker of American English, with vision good enough to see and read a computer screen, and able to attend an in-person visit in the Arnold Lab, Room 371, Davie Hall at UNC. You must not have participated in other Arnold lab studies before. If you wear glasses and use lenses as well, we request that you wear lenses for the ease of participation. Also, we request that you not wear any eye makeup during participation.
Are you planning on having an IUD placed? If you are already planning to get an IUD, this study gives the chance to receive extra pain medication during insertion. Everyone will receive standard pain medication, and 2/3 of volunteers will receive extra. We are looking to see if giving ketorolac pills 1-hour vs 2-hours before an IUD decreases pain levels. We would need 3 hours of in-person clinic time from volunteers. Compensation provided.
Are you in perimenopause? Are you interested in lifting weights and taking creatine supplements? Do you want to learn more about your body and brain? If so, you may be able to participate in a research study to understand the impact of resistance training and creatine on muscle quality and cognition in perimenopause!
Have you been diagnosed with early stage triple negative breast cancer and not yet received treatment? If so, you may be eligible for a trial comparing the use two different regimens of chemotherapy-immunotherapy treatments prior to surgery.
Is your child between the ages of 8 and 11? Was your child assigned female sex at birth? If so, you may be able to take part in a study to see how social experiences and puberty can affect the mental health of preteen girls. We want to help improve youth mental health support. Compensation provided.
Are you right-handed? Are you between the ages 18 and 35 or 65 and 85? Are you interested in testing your memory? If so, you may be able to take part in a study on how younger and older adults learn and remember objects. You can help us learn more about how memory works in adults! Compensation provided.