Social cues and first treatment experience study
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This study looks at how seeing other people's reactions might affect your first experience with a treatment. It uses brain scans to understand this, which could help improve how treatments are introduced to patients.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You must be a fluent English speaker.
- You must be generally healthy with no major psychiatric, neurological, or chronic pain conditions.
- You must be able to undergo an MRI brain scan (no metal implants, no claustrophobia).
- You must not have used alcohol or drugs in the 48 hours before the study.
- You must not be taking certain medications like antidepressants, mood stabilizers, or opioids.
- You must not be pregnant.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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