How doctors' expectations affect their emotions
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This study looks at how expecting to feel pain can change how doctors react emotionally. It uses brain scans (MRI) and mild electrical stimulation (tTIS) to understand these effects.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are a medical student or resident doctor at Dartmouth.
- You have no current or past depression, bipolar disorder, or other psychiatric condition.
- You have no history of seizures, stroke, or major brain injury that affects thinking.
- You do not have chronic pain, acute pain in the last 3 months, migraine, or fibromyalgia.
- You are not taking any medication for a neurological or psychiatric condition.
- You have not used drugs or alcohol in a harmful way in the last 6 months.
- You do not have any metal in your body (like pacemaker, cochlear implant, shrapnel) and are not pregnant or claustrophobic.
- You are able to read and speak English well, and can tolerate brief but intense heat pain on your skin.
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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