Healthy Females Needed for Brain Imaging Research Study

San Diego CA

Description

ABOUT THE STUDY This research uses fMRI to investigate how dopamine medications affect reward processing in the brain. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) techniques use powerful magnetic fields that allow a scanner and a computer to take very detailed pictures of the structure of the brain and brain activation. WHAT YOU'LL BE ASKED TO DO Participation in this study includes questionnaires about mood, eating and behavior, a diagnostic interview, EKG and blood labs and 3 brain imaging study visits. At each of the brain imaging study visits participants spend one hour in the scanner. During the scan, participants will complete 2 tasks – a learning task and a taste task. At the beginning of each day participants will be administered one of two dopamine medications or placebo. COMPENSATION Participants are compensated up to $525 for completing all of the study procedures. YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE IF YOU: - are 18-29 years old - are right-handed - have no history of medical issues - have a BMI between 18.5–24.9 WE ARE ALSO RECRUITING: - females ages 18-29 with anorexia nervosa You can go to our study page on UCSD Clinical Trials website for more details and to request a screening: