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This study tests whether a table-top water pitcher filter can reduce arsenic levels in drinking water for people with private wells in New Hampshire. Twenty adults with elevated arsenic in their well water will use the pitcher for 12 weeks. Researchers will measure arsenic in wat…

This study is testing a smartphone app that uses brief surveys and phone sensor data to detect when someone with an eating disorder might be at higher risk for behaviors like binge eating, restricting food, or purging. The app then delivers short video lessons on coping skills. T…

This study investigates how social information—like knowing a task will be easy or hard—affects brain activity in people with epilepsy. Participants, who already have electrodes implanted in their brains for medical reasons, will rate their doctors and then complete tasks involvi…

This study tests whether a gentle, non-invasive brain stimulation technique called tTIS can reduce negative emotions like fear and pain. It also looks at how a caregiver's positive or negative words might boost or weaken that effect. About 196 healthy adults will take part, inclu…

This study uses brain scans to explore how a placebo cream affects pain perception across different body sites. Researchers will apply a cream described as pain-relieving (though it is just a scrub) to healthy volunteers and measure their pain responses to heat. The goal is to un…

This study looks at how having control over a virtual environment changes how people feel pain and anxiety. Twenty healthy adults will experience mild pain and anxiety in different virtual settings—some they can control, some they cannot. The goal is to understand how the brain a…