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== Screening Questions == | == Screening Questions == | ||
#Are you right handed? | #Are you right handed? | ||
#Is English your dominant language? | |||
#Are you taking any medications that affect your central nervous system? (e.g. Ritalin, Valium, beta blockers, etc.) | #Are you taking any medications that affect your central nervous system? (e.g. Ritalin, Valium, beta blockers, etc.) | ||
#Are you or may you be pregnant? | #Are you or may you be pregnant? | ||
Latest revision as of 10:21, 7 March 2018
When a potential participant contacts the lab to participate in one of the on going studies ask them the following questions:
Screening Questions
- Are you right handed?
- Is English your dominant language?
- Are you taking any medications that affect your central nervous system? (e.g. Ritalin, Valium, beta blockers, etc.)
- Are you or may you be pregnant?
- Do you have metallic implants, such as pacemakers, replacement joints, cochlear implants?
- Do you have an aneurism clip, implanted neural stimulator?
- Do you have a vagus nerve stimulator (VNS)?
- Do you have any shrapnel injuries?
- Do you have any ocular foreign bodies (metal shavings, e.g., associated with welding)?
- Do you have a history of metal in head or eyes or other parts of the body?
- Do you have tattoos that contain metal (often found in black inks)?
- Do you have untreatable claustrophobia otherwise requiring anesthesia or antianxiety medications that may alter your ability to perform the tasks during fMRI scanning?
- For safety purposes the MRI scanner has a weight limit of 350 lbs. Do you fall under this limit?