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Developing Transcranial Neuromodulation Protocols for Learning and Decision-Making
Background: People with substance use disorder (SUD) often have changes in brain function that can make it difficult to control drug-seeking behavior. These c…
Causal Mechanisms of Odor-Guided Behavior in Humans
Background: Little is known about how different regions of the brain responsible for the human sense of smell guide behaviors. In this study, researchers use …
A Natural History Study of Metabolic Sizing in Health and Disease
Background: Scientists have long used simple measures (such as height and weight) to estimate how much a person s body uses food (calories) as energy, as comm…
Development of Neuroimaging Methods to Assess the Neurobiology of Addiction
Background: Abusing alcohol, drugs, and other substances can cause serious health problems. These substances also can affect brain function. Researchers want …
Defining Neurobiological Links Between Substance Use and Mental Illness
Background: Nicotine dependence leads to about 480,000 deaths every year in the United States. People with major depressive disorder (MDD) are twice as likely…
Sociocultural & Biobehavioral Influences on Pain Expression and Assessment
Objective The current proposal investigates behavioral, psychophysiological, and social processes that may help explain biases and disparate outcomes in pain.…
An All-Night Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sleep Study With Auditory Stimuli
Background: An electroencephalogram (EEG) measures the brain s electrical activity. EEG shows that the louder the sound needed to wake a person, the deeper th…
Assessing and Improving Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Metrics in Human Subjects
Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which uses strong magnets to get images of structures inside the body, is a valuable tool in modern medicine. Bu…
MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy) Measurement of Glutamate and GABA Metabolism in Brain
This study will use magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to measure in the brain the transfer of \[13\]C as it is naturally metabolized from glucose to specif…
Development and Validation of Learning and Decision-Making Tasks
Background: Substance use disorders (SUD) can be considered disorders in the way people process incentives, learn, and make decisions. To understand why some …
The Effects of Increasing Caloric Intake on Diet-Induced Thermogenesis and 24h Energy Expenditure
Background: Diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT) is the amount of energy one's body uses to eat food, absorb the nutrients from the food, and process those nutrie…
Investigating the Impact of Obesity on Pubertal Development in Girls
Background: Studies suggest that overweight girls may be developing breast tissue, and therefore starting puberty, earlier than normal weight girls. However, …