Carle and the University of Illinois are conducting an innovative community study to better understand the brain’s structure and function with the latest MRI technology.

To participate, you must:

• Be 18 or older.
• Not be pregnant.
• Have no metal implants or only have implants approved for 7T MRI
• Be able to complete up to three 120-minute MRI brain scans.

Participants will complete various questionnaires and cognitive assessments, wear a physical activity monitor, and participate in up to three MRI brain scans at the Carle Illinois Advanced Imaging Center. These will be spread across two visits a week or two apart from each other that are repeated a year later.

As a token of our appreciation for your time, the Beckman Institute at Illinois will provide participants $20 per hour.

To participate in this study or to learn more, contact the study coordinator at (217) 383-5607 or Ian.Hall@carle.com. Or you can email CUPS@carle.com.

A research study is seeking participants to develop and validate new methods for diagnosing tinnitus, also known as ringing in the ears. The goal of this study is to use brain wave recording to distinguish those who have tinnitus from those who do not.

We are looking for healthy adults between the ages of 18-70 years with or without tinnitus who have normal hearing to mild hearing loss, normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no history of neurological or psychiatric illness. If you are unsure about your hearing, no worries —we will do a free hearing test. This study is being conducted by Fatima Husain of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

If interested, please contact the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at 217-333-7561 or email tinnitus@illinois.edu. Individuals will be paid for their participation and will also be reimbursed for parking.