Featured Studies

Do you... Find yourself constantly checking things? Spend lots of time ordering your belongings? Have unusual rituals or habits that seem unnecessary? Do you blurt out comments at inappropriate times, interrupt conversations or speak out of turn or feel you are overly impulsive? The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is conducting an outpatient research study on the links between compulsivity, impulsivity and the developing brain in children and young adults.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are studying how infants' brains change as they learn new motor skills. Results may assist with better treatment methods for Cerebral Palsy.

Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) are seeking healthy children between 2-17 years old to participate in a research study to better understand the immune system of patients with mitochondrial disease in comparison to their healthy peers.

Thyroid cancer accounts for the vast majority of all types of cancer and little is known about the possible genes that may cause the cancer. An estimated 5% of all thyroid cancers are hereditary. If three or more first-degree relatives are affected, there is a greater than 94% chance that these cases are familial non-medullary thyroid cancer (FNMTC). Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are conducting a research study to develop the best ways to evaluate, determine best screening strategy, and identify genes that may indicate vulnerability to FNMTC.

Your healthy 8-year-old child is invited to participate in an NIH outpatient research study that examines how puberty affects brain development.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seek participants age five and older with childhood-onset brain injury (e.g.,cerebral palsy) to join a research study. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and/or electroencephalography (EEG) may be used to study brain activity. Learning how the brain controls muscles may help design treatments to help patients with brain injury to move better.

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the NIH Clinical Center is looking for volunteers who need to have their wisdom teeth removed. Researchers will evaluate people who need to have their wisdom teeth removed. The removed wisdom teeth will be studied and used for further research.

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland is conducting a study for vasculitis. Researchers are inviting both volunteers who have the condition, and those who do not, to participate in this study. All study-related tests and procedures are provided at no cost to you.

Researchers at the NIH Clinical Center are seeking healthy children for a study of growth and health behaviors. The purpose of the study is to better understand growth in children and adolescents.