Columbia University Medical Center is presently recruiting healthy individuals to participate in an fMRI research study. For your participation, you will receive up to $270 and an opportunity to advance research in the area of trauma and PTSD. This study involves two visits.
This goal of this study is to learn more about how stress and coping might be associated with blood pressure in lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. If you are deemed eligible, first you will be scheduled for a telephone or video conference interview with a member from the study team, which may take up to 1.5 hours. For the interview, you may be asked to…
We are currently enrolling healthy individuals to participate in a research study involving electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Participants will complete 3 visits over the course of 2 weeks and receive up to $400 for their participation. The visits will involve a psychiatric assessment and medical history, playing computer…
The Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Lab is currently running research studies to investigate social interactions. Our beliefs about those who are close to us are based on our previous interactions with them. This experiment examines exactly how interactions with close others lead to changes in our beliefs about their personality and our…
The purpose of this research study is to learn whether exercise affects learning and memory in people with anxiety. This is not a treatment study. The exercise program in this study runs for 6 weeks total. Each week, you are required to exercise 4 times for 12-15 minutes on the stepper machine that will be provided for you. You will be asked to visit our…
Osteoporotic fractures affect the lives of 1.5 million Americans each year. Imaging tests, such as bone density, are used to predict fracture risk and to help guide therapy for fracture prevention. In this study we are validating a high-resolution, three-dimensional scanner with the overall goal of improving the diagnosis of bone diseases.
The FAR-ILD study is designed to detect and study the earliest stages of ILD in adults with a family history of ILD. FAR-ILD is a non-interventional study. This means that FAR-ILD is not involved in testing any new interventions or therapies. The purpose of FAR-ILD is to gather data on family members of patients with pulmonary fibrosis over a long period of…
The Learning Lab at Columbia University is conducting computer based behavioral studies to address fundamental questions regarding the nature of learning, memory, and decision making. Specifically, we will use behavioral methods to investigate the extent to which learning, memory and decision making may be modulated by factors such as novelty, trial-by-…