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This study tests a smartphone app designed to help teenagers in rural New Hampshire cope with anxiety. The app sends quick, personalized suggestions for calming activities. Fifty teens aged 13-17 with mild or worse anxiety will use the app for 3 months or be placed on a waitlist.…

This study looks at whether giving people with ALS and their caregivers video recordings of their clinic visits helps them feel better and manage care more easily. About 800 participants (400 patient-caregiver pairs) from eight U.S. sites will be split into two groups: one gets s…

This pilot study aims to see if a program that combines peer doula support with digital tools (like smartphones) is practical and well-liked by patients and staff at two clinics. About 100 participants, including healthcare workers and pregnant or postpartum people with substance…

This study tests whether real-time fMRI can alter how healthy people perceive social interactions. Ten participants will undergo multiple MRI sessions where their brain activity is monitored and used to trigger specific trials. The goal is to see if this feedback can shift their …

This study looks at how seeing someone else benefit from a placebo treatment, along with your own past experiences, can influence the placebo effect. Researchers will use brain scans (fMRI) to understand these effects in 120 healthy adults. The goal is to learn what makes placebo…

This early-phase study investigates whether the opioid system is involved in placebo effects on both physical pain and the pain of social rejection. Sixty adults who recently experienced an unwanted breakup will receive either naloxone (which blocks opioids) or saline, and be tol…

This study tests whether placebo suggestions work better when they match a person's natural motivational style—either focusing on promoting good feelings or preventing pain. Sixty healthy adults will receive a plain hand cream but be told it's a pain reliever, with suggestions ta…