Using micro-RNA in saliva coupled with survey data as a prognostic tool with the ability to guide clinical management of concussions

During their baseline visit participants will complete a saliva swab, surveys, balance test and brief neurocognitive test. Day 7, participants will complete a saliva swab and 2 surveys. Day 30, participants will complete a saliva swab and 4 surveys. The baseline visit is the only in-person visit, day 7 and day 30 are done remotely. All surveys are completed online and day 7 and day 30 saliva swabs are sent home with the participants and sent back in a prepaid mailer on day 30.

$40

The purpose of this research is to take and store blood, urine samples from pregnant women diagnosed by a positive pregnancy test or by ultrasound imaging. The purpose of this study is to determine a better way to diagnose the location and/or viability (chance of survival) of a pregnancy, as compared to current clinical care. Many women are found to be pregnant by a hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) test which detects a hormone that is indicative of pregnancy. However, in early pregnancy, it is often difficult to see the pregnancy by ultrasound, which is called a pregnancy of unknown location (PUL). In early pregnancy, doctors do many tests (including blood tests and ultrasounds) to try to determine how far along the pregnancy is, whether it is healthy, and most importantly whether the pregnancy is growing in the right place. The doctors running this research project are trying to see if there are substances (biomarkers) in the blood or urine of a pregnant woman that can tell whether the pregnancy is a normal, healthy pregnancy, an ectopic pregnancy, or if pregnancy is not viable (miscarriage). To do this, blood and/or urine samples are being collected from women who have a pregnancy of unknown location, an ectopic pregnancy, women who are having a miscarriage, and women with a healthy growing pregnancy. The study will then look at a pre- determined panel of biomarkers that have been shown to be elevated (higher) or decreased (lower) in different types of pregnancy to determine the effectiveness and accuracy of this test in earlier diagnosing the viability and location of early pregnancy.

There will be one visit at the visit participants will be consented and following consenting blood and urine will be collected.

$25.00

The purpose of this study is to collect normative data related to orofacial (lip/tongue) somatosensation (touch sensation) in healthy adults across the adult lifespan. This data will be compared to a select clinical population, those with Parkinson's disease.

There will be one data collection session lasting approximately 90 minutes. Participants may be invited back for a second session approximately 4 weeks later to repeat the testing session During the sessions, participants will answer a series of questions about their eating and drinking preferences, they will be asked to provide a speech sample by repeating a series of syllables, words, and sentences, as well as providing a spontaneous speech sample. All participants will be asked to complete a series of sensory tests where small plastic objects are placed on their lip, tongue, and finger tip. Participants will be asked when they feel the pressure/texture and when they do not.

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to find out more about changes in the brain as we age. This study is trying to determine if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), genetic variations, amyloid positron emissions tomography (PET), neuropsychological testing, and smell tests can be used to evaluate memory loss and cognitive impairment.

You will be asked to come to the research site once a year for 5 years. Annual (and semi-annual) procedures include completing smell tests, neuropsychological tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), interview. One-time procedures include provide blood sample, amyloid PET scan (if indicated), and optional lumbar puncture.

Up to $300 a year

This research is being done to find out the effects of head cooling on cognition, brain activity as seen in EEG scans, inflammation of the brain, and mood in healthy subjects. What is specifically meant by healthy subjects in the context of this study is subjects who are not currently recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

This study includes an 8-day regimen of head cooling or rest at an average of 30 minutes per day, non-invasive cheek swabs used to collect saliva samples, and non-invasive brain activity testing and questionnaires.

$40

Using small focus groups, this work aims to understand the experiences, challenges, perceptions, and opportunities for the use of conversational agents (e.g Amazon Alexa and Siri) for users with visual or hearing impairments, with the goal of developing more accessible and inclusive systems.

To find out the kind of support someone newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes will need following diagnosis.

This study explores how international students show and develop pragmatic strategies to effectively communicate with peers and colleagues from diverse language and cultural backgrounds at Penn State. Participants recruited from the StudyFinder are invited to complete an online survey, and will receive an Amazon gift card as a token of appreciation.

This study will examine various factors within the home of children adopted from the child welfare system between the ages of 4 and 10 that may impact their development. The first visit will occur remotely via Penn State Health Microsoft Teams; the second visit is optional and will occur within 4 weeks of the first visit at the Transforming Lives of Children Center in Harrisburg, PA; and the third visit will occur one year after the first visit, when research staff will travel to participants' homes. This research will help understand the factors that impact the development of children adopted from the child welfare system and how we may better serve these children and their families.

The child and parent will be asked to complete interviews, questionnaires and various tasks. Parents may also be asked to complete questionnaires online. Participation will last for one year and include the following: -One visit occurring remotely via PSH Microsoft Teams -One visit at the Transforming the Lives of Children Center in Harrisburg, PA, four weeks after Zoom visit (optional) -Final visit at home will occur one year after the first Zoom visit

$225

With the development of information and communication technologies, Social Network Sites and other online platforms can be great resources for career-related information and social networking. Despite the evidence of possible professional benefits, it remains unclear whether graduate students’ experiences with building online career profiles and social networking are positive. Therefore, this study aims to understand graduate students’ experience with professional practices on the Internet concerning their motivations, benefits, and risks.

This is a multicenter evaluation of seladelpar, administered as a once-daily oral capsule, in a placebo-controlled study in subjects with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC). This study (156 weeks) will enroll approximately 192 subjects. The population to be studied is patients with PBC and compensated cirrhosis restricted to Child-Pugh (CP)-A or CP-B. Primary Objectives Efficacy: To evaluate the effect of seladelpar compared to placebo. Safety: To evaluate the safety of seladelpar over 156 weeks of treatment compared to placebo. Study visits: up to 18 in person visits. Blood samples will be collected at each visit for safety measures as well and questions about your health and medicines you might be taking.

There will be 18 in person visits. safety assessments will be conducted at each visit. Participants will be required to take study drug as directed.

$1350

This study will involve elderly humans walking on a treadmill transitioning through prechosen speeds.

There will be one, two hour in person visit. Participants will change into specific lab provided clothing for study and reflective stickers will be placed on participants by the researcher. Participants will then get on the treadmill and will walk at prescribed constant speeds for about 5 minutes total. Then participants will perform 10 speed transition trials each of which lasts about 4 minutes.

$15

The purpose of this study is to learn about the relationship between the campus environment and students’ health. It involves a survey consisting questions about campus-related activities, COVID-19, physical activity and health, environmental perceptions, and demographic information.

There will be an online survey that will take about 20-30 minutes. No need to meet in-person.

Crohn's disease is a chronic, incurable inflammatory disease of the digestive system. Current treatment advancements need to be improved to meet patient's needs. This study is a 24-week treat-through design (meaning Induction and Maintenance treatment without re-randomization) using either monotherapy (single drug) or combination therapies (two drugs) in moderate to severe Crohn's disease. The participants who are responders will be able to continue treatment in Long Term Extension (LTE) study phase, weeks 24 to 96. This study aims to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of each combination therapy compared to conventional monotherapy.

Subjects will be required to sign the informed consent, and attend in person visits. They will be required to complete daily eDiary, and have tests and procedures done per protocol timeline. Procedures include blood tests, colonoscopies with biopsies, ECG, vitals and physical exam. Pregnancy testing will be done for WOCBP.

$77 per completed visit and $100 for completed endoscopy. Travel will be reimbursed up to $52 for each visit. You will be given $24 for meal if the visit required fasting.

The primary aim of this study is to understand taste changes after head and neck cancer treatment, especially long term taste disturbance, using various methods including online surveys, Teams interviews, at home taste and smell tests, and MRIs.

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to identify taste changes in patients treated for head and neck cancer. We are recruiting healthy participants over the age of 40 as well as head and neck cancer survivors who were treated 3 or more years ago. The overall study consists of multiple parts, which are explained along the way. You can choose to participate in this portion, which is an online survey, and nothing else, or all of the invited components. • The survey will take approximately 10 minutes of your time. • Completion of this survey is voluntary and you are not required to complete it if you do not wish to do so. • At the end of the survey you will be asked about your willingness to participate in other portions of this study. These include at-home taste and smell tests over Teams and a Teams interview about your taste and smell function. Participating in these tasks is optional and not required. If you complete the smell and taste tests at home you may be invited to have an MRI scan.

Max of $75: No compensation for the survey, $15 giftcard for 1-hour interview (optional), $15 giftcard for at-home taste/smell tests (optional), $50 giftcard for MRI at Hershey Med Center (optional).

The purpose of the proposed plan of research is to investigate the types of patterns that human adults with or without a history of language/ learning difficulties tap into as they learn.

Our study involves an initial testing session lasting between 1-2 hours, followed by up to two additional sessions for eligible participants. As part of our study, you will take part in some speaking, listening, learning, and visual processing tasks.

up to $75

The aim of this study is to better understand emotion regulation in infants by measuring brain, behavior, and mother-infant relational mechanisms. We plan to collect simultaneous brain activation in mothers and infants while they engage in a face-to-face interaction. We will then test associations between individual brain activation, mother-infant brain synchrony, and infant emotion regulation behaviors.

Participants complete questionnaires online, then come in for 1 in-person visit. Mother and baby complete a play and a neutral task while fNIRS is collected from them simultaneously.

40

This study aims to understand peoples’ selfie-taking behavior and how, if at all, they relate to their driving behavior and gender difference. The participants will participate the study by completing an online survey.

This a collaborative multisite NIH funded project to develop smell tests as a rapid low cost way to screen for Covid19 infections. The lead institution is the University of Florida, and this project is being entered into CATS to create a Reliance Agreement under the NIH single IRB rules (sIRB).

The purpose of this study is to identify changes in salivary micro ribosomal nucleic acid (miRNA) expression that are predictive of symptom duration and severity following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children. The primary endpoints of this study are as follows: 1) Characterization of brain-related miRNA in the saliva of 250 children with mTBI and 200 age- and gender-matched controls between the ages of five and twenty-three years. 2) Identification of a set of salivary miRNAs that is predictive of duration and severity of mTBI symptoms.

Saliva collection and surveys at baseline, 7 days, and 30 Days

$20

The purpose of this study is to gather information about what family mealtimes look like for families with children between the ages of 3 and 8. Families will be asked to video record their family mealtime, in addition to answer some questions and to complete some questionnaires, some about body image and dieting.

On one occasion, your family's mealtime will be recorded via Zoom. You and your family will be asked some questions and to complete some questionnaires online.

$20

Hormones are molecules that deliver signals throughout the body. They influence behavior, sleep, hunger, stress, and virtually all other aspects of life. This study seeks to better understand several of these functions, specifically how hormones affect specific aspects of human behavior and psychology, as well as speech production. Following an initial lab visit, subjects will participate in the remainder of the study (~5 weeks) at home via the internet. On a daily basis, they will collect urine samples for hormone analysis, saliva samples for analysis of oral micro-organisms, and will submit voice samples for analysis of speech (e.g. measuring voice pitch and loudness). They will then complete an online survey designed to collect information about their behavior, and attitudes over the previous 24 hours. Subjects receive compensation for their participation.

- Compensation $330 at maximum - Pre-sampling lab visit to sign a consent form and receive training - A series of ~42 daily at-home sample (urine, saliva) collection & online surveys - Weekly lab visits for sample drop-off

$330

This trial is comparing radiation therapy with or without hormone therapy in men with prostate cancer.

Patients must come in for all radiation treatments. Patients must take their androgen therapy as prescribed.

This is a randomized trial whereby a study device will be used to remove tissue from the ovary via a transvaginal ultrasound procedure in order to promote/restore ovulation in women with infertility due to PCOS. Weekly serum blood draws will also be obtained to determine ovulation rates during the first 12 weeks of study enrollment. Those randomized to the control arm will have the option of crossing over to the device arm after 3 months.

Preliminary visit to assess eligibility followed by randomization into the Device or Control Arm. Device Arm requires May Health procedure (approximately 1 hour long, similar to ovarian drilling) followed by 12 weekly blood tests and 6 follow up clinic visits and follow up calls for up to 36 months after the procedur4e. Control Arm requires 12 weekly blood tests and the option to cross-over to the device arm after 3 months. If no cross-over occurs, the control arm will have one follow up visit at 3 months and can then exit the study. Both arms will complete questionnaires and log menstruation dates in an e-diary.

1220

This trial is comparing disease free survival using standard radiation versus higher doses of radiation to the prostate to prevent the cancer from spreading.

Participants will be chosen to enroll into one of two types of radiation to treat their prostate cancer. they must agree to keep all appointments over the 5 years period and agree to be contacted every year for follow up.

To examine women’s self-reported pregnancy hydration behaviors, especially during a global pandemic. This study will also examine other lifestyle behaviors (e.g., weight gain, exercise, eating behaviors, sleep, pain management). It is hypothesized that hydration behaviors will decrease due to lifestyle changes related to the pandemic. Secondary outcomes will also be influenced by hydration behaviors and pandemic lifestyle changes.

This study aims to understand ways to affect how riders perceive and provide feedback to drivers through technology intervention. Particularly, we investigate how presenting drivers’ personal profile under different trip conditions may lead to differences in the ways riders may provide feedback. We hypothesize that riders will provide positive feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes well, and that riders will provide less negative feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes bad due to uncontrollable reasons.

This protocol has two independent parts. In Part 1, participants will be randomized to one of three Tulisokibart arms of treatment or placebo. Tretment will include induction, maintenance, and extension. When the maximum number of participants with prior exposure to advanced therapies has been reached, Part 2 will open for enrollment. In Part 2, the participants will be randomized to one of two dosing arms of Tulisokibart or a placebo.

The participants will be required to sign the inform consent and understand the requirements. They must have in person visits, comply with the procedures (blood test), colonoscopy, and to complete daily dairy about their symptoms. They must provide specimens such as blood, stool, and urine.

$100 per completed visit, $250 per endoscopy

This study is comparing standard of care surgery and after surgery radiation against pre-surgery immunotherapy, followed by surgery, followed by radiation and immunotherapy to determine which combination prevents cancer reoccurrence.

Participants must come to all scheduled study visits, all medications they are taking including over the counter and tell the study doctor how you are feeling. 7 visits; 3 blood draws; QOLs to be completed 5 times for Group 1 and 7 times for Group 2

The purpose of this research is to measure clinical safety and efficacy (effectiveness) of oral brepocitinib in adults with cutaneous sarcoidosis. Participation in this study is expected to last for up to 24 weeks (about 6 months). During treatment period, visits will be scheduled about every 4 weeks. Participants will be assigned to 1 of 3 treatments, there is a chance of receiving a placebo (non active ingredient treatment) however, you will not know nor will the study team know what treatment you have been assigned too. In addition, throughout the study at different time points you will answer questions, take the study treatment as directed by the study team, have your skin examined (biopsy), have labs drawn, have an ECG, and a chest x-ray.

Participants will attend a total of 7 in person visits throughout the study and visits will be scheduled about every 4 weeks during the Treatment Period. During the study you will be asked to answer questions to gather information on your health as well have you complete questionnaires. In addition, you will have the following assessments at different time points throughout the study: skin exam, ECG, Chest X-Ray, Skin photography, Skin punch biopsy, Pulmonary function testing, and blood tests.