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Volunteers are key to supporting research that has the potential to change people’s lives. Volunteers may have specific diagnoses, while others volunteer to serve as controls or people who don’t have a diagnosis. We seek participants across ages, gender, disability, race, and region.
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Our scientists seek a variety of participants across ages, gender, disability, race, and region.

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Research Opportunities

This study is examining the effects of the medication Pimavanserin on inflexible thinking and rigid-compulsive behavior in individuals aged 16- to 40-years-old with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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This study seeks to understand behavioral and motor system differences among autistic young children, their biological siblings, and young children without autism to identify early developmental markers of autism and understand familial patterns of ASD.

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This study seeks to increase understanding of how the brain responds to sensing the body (i.e., touch, heartbeat, stomach). The goal is to better understand sensory processing and brain function across a wide range of people, including adults, children, and individuals with autism, developmental, and cognitive differences.

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This study seeks to understand behavioral and brain differences associated with aging in individuals who carry the premutation of the Fragile X gene. 

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This study seeks to understand brain development and how it relates to symptoms, behaviors, and abilities present in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants will complete tests of motor skills and thinking abilities and tests of brain function involving non-invasive EEG tasks. We welcome people with intellectual disability, profound autism, behaviors others find challenging, and different styles of communication (including minimally verbal or non-verbal individuals).

Featured opportunities

Up to age 3: Researchers Looking for Toddlers Who May Have Autism

This study has the goal of providing guidance for therapists to predict which children will remain minimally verbal and benefit most from intensive language intervention at earlier ages.

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Ages 3-6: Autistic Preschoolers Sought for a Research Study

Over the course of this study, 60 preschoolers with autism will be recruited to participate in local preschools in the Kansas City metro area. Two peer partners are recruited for each child with autism; and one special education team member will be trained as lead interventionist and implement the communication intervention called Stay-Play-Talk.

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Ages 8-35: Sensory Feedback and Motor Control in Autism

The aim of this study is to better understand brain development and how it relates to symptoms, behaviors, and abilities present in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants will complete tests of motor skills and thinking abilities and tests of brain function involving non-invasive EEG tasks.

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Ages 50-80: Aging in Premutation Carriers of the Fragile X gene, FMR1

This study is recruiting individuals aged 50-80 with a premutation of the Fragile X gene, FMR1. We also are seeking individuals in this age range who do not have FMR1 premutation and who would be willing to volunteer as a control participant. All participants will be compensated for their time, and individuals with an FMR1 premutation will receive a clinical evaluation report as part of study participation.

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Ages 60-75: Participants Needed for FMR1 Premutation Carrier Study

The BRAIN Lab is seeking individuals ages 60-75 years for our studies of behavioral and brain changes during aging in healthy individuals and individuals with premutations of the Fragile X gene, FMR1. Both individuals with and without the premutation are eligible to participate.

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