Overview
The purpose of this study is to use smartphone technology to capture individual location emotional and cognitive data, to examine how real-world behaviors thoughts, emotions, and brain activity are related to one another.
Description
The observational portion of this study was initially approved in 2015, this is a subset of the initially approved study and it is a clinical trial of 100 participants.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must agree to give informed consent
- Must be willing to have an functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scan
- Must be able to receive and respond to daily text messages assessing current emotion
- Must be willing to download and run a GPS tracking application (FollowMee) onto their smartphone for a four-month period
Exclusion Criteria:
- history of head trauma, seizures, or neurological disorders
- severe/unstable medical conditions
- conditions that interfere with MRI
- pregnancy
- lifetime psychotic/bipolar disorder
- chronic/severe substance or alcohol abuse/dependence
- antipsychotic medication