Stress Study Seeks Volunteers

10/15/2019

The Brain and Cognition Lab is recruiting young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 for a study examining the effects of stress on thinking.

Study Details

• The study will last approximately two hours and will take place in Morrissey Hall.
• Participation will involve completing speech, math, memory, letter decision and puzzle tasks and completing demographic, health, recent stress and personality questionnaires.
• Participants will also be asked to provide multiple saliva samples and heart rate measures.
• Participants will receive $25 for participation in this study.

Volunteer Requirements

• You are eligible to participate if you are a native English speaker and have never been diagnosed with a neurological condition, have never had a head injury resulting in loss of consciousness for over five minutes, have no active psychiatric conditions, are not currently taking corticosteroid-based, psychiatric, neurological or sex hormone medications, are not currently using hormonal birth control, and do not consume nicotine products.
• Females must typically experience a regular menstrual cycle and must not be pregnant.

To participate in this study or to learn more about it, contact Robyn Husa at 314-977-4199 or brainlab@slu.edu.

The study’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol number is #30264 and it was approved May 28, 2019.

Brenda Kirchhoff, Ph.D., is the faculty mentor for the study.