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SMART Study: StiMulating After Recovery from mild Traumatic Brain Injury

This research study is currently enrolling adults who have experienced a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), and adults who have never experienced a TBI of any level of severity. It is not enrolling anyone with moderate or severe TBI history. There will be 9 in-person study visits where you will wear a stimulation headcap while completing various computer tasks. At these visits, you will also complete questionnaires about symptoms, sleep, mental health, and more. This study is compensated. 

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Please contact rnl@umn.edu or (612) 873-9113 if you would like more information about this study

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EDIFY

This research study is currently enrolling adults who have experienced a mild or moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the last 2 weeks, and adults who have never experienced a TBI of any level of severity. It is not enrolling anyone with severe TBI history. There will be 3 in-person study visits where you will complete various computer tasks and complete questionnaires about symptoms, sleep, mental health, and more. This study is compensated. 

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Please contact rnl@umn.edu or (612) 873-9113 if you would like more information about this study

RHYTHM Study

This research study is currently enrolling adults who experience regular menstrual cycles. It is not enrolling anyone with a history of pelvic pain or sexual dysfunction.​There will be 2-4 in-person study visits where you will watch neutral and erotic videos while your physiological responses are measured.​Please contact rnl@umn.edu or (612) 873-9113 if you would like more information about this study. ​​

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Trigeminal Neuralgia Study

This study is currently enrolling healthy volunteers who have no facial pain, face-related disorders, or prior surgeries. 

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This will take about 2 hours to complete, and you will be compensated $80. 

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Please reach out to hdlab@umn.edu or call 612-946-1424 for additional details! 

The RECODE Study

This study is enrolling people who have a diagnosis of chronic pain, treatment resistant depression, or both, as well as healthy controls who do not have chronic pain or depression.  Participating in this study involves undergoing an MRI scan where you will watch some videos and perform a computer task, followed by two lab visits where you will receive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and perform additional tasks on the computer.

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Telefitting Spinal Cord Stimulation for Pain (The TSP Study):

This study is enrolling patients who have chronic pain and are scheduled to receive a spinal cord stimulator (SCS) to treat their pain.  Participating in this study involves up to 7 in-person visits to the Herman-Darrow Lab at the University of Minnesota. Each visit will involve doing various behavioral tasks/games on a computer while wearing an EEG headcap, a programming session for the stimulator settings, and an optional blood draw. This study is not enrolling healthy controls.Please contact hdlab@umn.edu or call 612-946-1424 if you believe you qualify for this study.
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