🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2024-08-05
Brain Criticality, Oculomotor Control, and Cognitive Effort (NCT06344559)
🟢 Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic ⚙️ Medical Device Protocol Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)
The project examines electroencephalography, MRI, and behavioral measures indexing flexibility (critical state dynamics) in the brain when healthy young adults do demanding cognitive tasks, and in response to transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (8 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (11 items).
Location: Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research — Piscataway, New Jersey
📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener
Instant ChecklistCheck every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).
Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:
- Exclusion Criteria:
- Ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
- Diagnosed psychiatric or mental illness
- Currently taking psychoactive medication
- Prior brain injury
- Metal in body
- History of seizures or diagnosis of epilepsy
- Claustrophobia
- Pregnant or possibly pregnant
- Younger than 18 or older than 45
- Use of medications which potentially lower the usage threshold
🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.
📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)
- Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research — Piscataway, New Jersey
💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights
- 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
- Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
- Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.