Studies¶
Overview¶
The following studies are currently recruiting participants. If you're a researcher interested in having your study listed here, please contact William Burroughs.
Brain Circuits and Comorbidity¶
People suffering from mental illnesses are often more likely to have other medical conditions. These additional illnesses are called comorbidity. The purpose of this research is to better understand how a mental illness in the brain may increase people’s comorbidity. The study may help doctors to develop better strategies to prevent and treat comorbidity in the future.
- Enrolling: patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, control participants without mental illness
- Age: 12-88 years
- Study length: about 16 hours over multiple visits
- Study components: MRI, brain wave recording (EEG), clinical assessments, computer tasks, blood vessel laser and ultrasound, sleep pattern recording, blood and saliva samples.
Click here to fill out a screening survey for this study: Survey
Circuitry-Guided Smoking Cessation in Schizophrenia¶
The purpose of this study is to provide effective repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments for nicotine addiction in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Enrolling: patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder & smoking in the last one year or more and average cigarette per day ≥ 5 in the past 4 weeks.
- Age: 22-65 years
- Study length: 5-6 months including ~6 weeks of TMS treatment and follow up visits
- Study components: brain stimulation (TMS), brain wave recording (EEG), MRI, clinical assessments
Click here to fill out a screening for this study: Survey
Mobile Brain Body Study¶
The purpose of this study is to examine how stress, sleep, and mental health are related, and the role of brain function in their relationship.
- Enrolling: patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, control participants without mental illness
- Age: 18-65 years
- Study length: 1 months including daily smartphone surveys and fitness tracking at home
- Study components: fitness tracking, smartphone surveys, MRI, clinical assessments, computer tasks, hair and saliva samples
Click here to fill out a screening for this study: Survey
Enhancing Brain Connectivity in Schizophrenia through Neuromodulation¶
The purpose of this study is to understand how cognition-related neural structures and circuitries, and cognitive performances in patients with schizophrenia are changed by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), behavioral cognitive trainings, and their combinations.
- Enrolling: patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder
- Age: 18-60 years
- Study length: 3-4 weeks
- Study components: brain stimulation (TMS), brain wave recording (EEG), MRI, clinical assessments