Showing 34 Clinical Studies

Testing if Oxytocin Helps You Feel Less Heat Pain After a Mild Sunburn

The purpose of this study is to see how oxytocin affects your ability to feel touch and heat. They will give you oxytocin through an IV (a tube in your vein). They will test this on normal skin and on skin that has a mild sunburn from UV-B light. In this study, you will either get oxytocin or a placebo (a fake solution that doesn't do anything).

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Healthy Volunteers Pain Skin, Hair, Nails

Studying How People Make Shopping Decisions at Retailers

The purpose of this study is to test how people make shopping decisions. The goal is to see how factors in the retail space impact purchase choices. This study is currently available for volunteers located in Chapel Hill, NC & Raleigh, NC.

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Healthy Volunteers Substance Use (Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, Tobacco)

The Vaccine Preferences Study

The goal of this study is to identify best practices in communicating information about new vaccines to communities that need them most. We want to survey Black and African American communities and learn more about their opinions and preferences for vaccine communication.

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Healthy Volunteers HIV/AIDS Infectious Diseases Mental Health

Learning More About Brain Health and Alzheimer's Disease

The purpose of this study is to learn more about brain health and the full spectrum of Alzheimer's disease from its earliest stages. This is an observational research study, which means it has no study drug or treatment.

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Healthy Volunteers Brain and Memory

How Damage to Blood Vessels in the Brain May Be Related to Thinking and Memory Problems Like Dementia

This study is being done to better understand how damaged blood vessels affect your thinking. This is not a treatment study.

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Aging Healthy Volunteers Brain and Memory

Learning More About How HIV and Marijuana Affect the Brain

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how HIV and marijuana affect the brain. This will help us understand how changes in the brain affect the way we think and behave.

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Healthy Volunteers HIV/AIDS Substance Use (Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, Tobacco)

Studying New Ways to Reduce Caregiver Stress

The purpose of this study is to see if listening to nature sounds and using a new technology called CR can help people who take care of loved ones feel less stressed. Taking care of someone can be stressful and affect your health. This study will test if CR can help reduce stress symptoms like anxiety, trouble sleeping, and changes in heart rate in a small group of people.

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Healthy Volunteers Mental Health Neurology Disorders Sleep Brain and Memory

Quitting Smoking and Managing Daily Challenges

The purpose of this study is to learn more about the mood, behavior and brains of people who smoke. We want to look at how daily hassles might affect how emotional distress is managed during an attempt to stop smoking. This study does not offer a treatment to stop smoking.

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Healthy Volunteers Substance Use (Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, Tobacco)

Learning More About How Sedatives Affect Tobacco Cravings and Withdrawal Symptoms

The purpose of this research is to learn more about the effects of sedative medication on the mood, behavior, and brains of smokers. We are not testing a treatment for quitting smoking. We are interested in how the medication affects tobacco craving and withdrawal symptoms. Taking part in this research will involve 5 visits and last about 5 weeks.

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Healthy Volunteers Substance Use (Alcohol, Illegal Drugs, Tobacco)

How Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 Affects the Brain

Myotonic dystrophy affects the muscles and other body systems. The purpose of this study is to look at the impact myotonic dystrophy type 2 has on the brain. We also want to look at brain-based symptoms like problems with thinking, memory or motivation.

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Healthy Volunteers Neurology Disorders Brain and Memory

High Blood Pressure in Children and Teenagers

The purpose of this study is to understand what causes high blood pressure in young people. We also want to learn more about how high blood pressure can cause damage to the heart and kidneys.

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Healthy Volunteers Heart Health Children, Infants, Teen Health

How the Brain Processes Information

The purpose of this study is to look at how the human brain processes information. We want to know how the human brain responds to different stimuli, how those stimuli make you feel, and how your feelings guide your decisions.

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Healthy Volunteers Men's Health Women's Health

Study Identifying Genetic Markers of Ovarian Cancer

The purpose of this study is to learn more about biological markers found in tissue, blood, and fluids. These markers may be able to tell us how severe a cancer can be and how well a cancer is responding to treatment.

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Healthy Volunteers Cancer Cancer: Women's Cancer

Head Trauma Among Student Athletes

We want to learn about how head movement during a contact sport-related hit to the head affects the brain. Contact sports include those which may involve contact to the head during play such as football and soccer.

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Healthy Volunteers Brain and Memory Children, Infants, Teen Health

Using Special Eyeglasses to Detect Absence Seizures in Children

The purpose of this study is to learn more about a new type of eyeglasses. We want to find out if eyeglasses can tell if a child is having absence seizures or having attentional difficulties.

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Epilepsy Healthy Volunteers Children, Infants, Teen Health

How Brain Activity Relates to Your Ability to Shift Attention in Response to Images

The purpose of this study is to look at how brain activity is related to your ability to shift attention when visual cues change. You will be asked to view specified images while receiving an MRI scan.

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Healthy Volunteers Brain and Memory

Factors in Early Adulthood that May Lead to Future Lung Disease

The purpose of this study is to find out why some people develop lung disease and others do not. The study will measure your lung health now and continue to collect data from you until the end of the study.

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Healthy Volunteers Lung Health

Can You Help the Tooth Fairy?

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how early life exposures can affect a child's or young adult's health. These exposures can include different things such as medications and foods. This study will be done completely online. The required baby tooth and saliva samples will be sent in using prepaid envelopes.

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Healthy Volunteers Allergies and Immunity Stomach and Intestines Children, Infants, Teen Health

How Salt Affects Blood Pressure in Young Adults Who Were Born Prematurely

The purpose of this study is to learn about how salt in the diet affects blood pressure in young adults who were born prematurely. We also want to find out if the medication, allopurinol, can change how salt in the diet affects blood pressure.

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Healthy Volunteers Heart Health Kidneys, Liver, Pancreas Children, Infants, Teen Health