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Can you tell which plants belong in Minnesota and which do not? We are studying what visual designs can help Minnesotans learn to identify invasive plants in our state. So visit our booth at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building to try our new interactive guide and share your feedback.

REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a condition in which people physically act out their dreams while sleeping. Some people with RBD may later develop neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease or related disorders. This study will examine changes in the brain over a two-year period using advanced brain imaging (7T MRI) and other neurological tests. Researchers will compare people with RBD to people without the disorder to better understand how the brain changes over time and identify potential early signs of neurological disease.

This research is being completed to examine the cells, brain imaging, and speech in individuals with REM Sleep Behavior Disorder who are taking serotonergic medications such as Citalopram, Escitalopram, Fluoxetine, Fluvoxamine, Paroxetine and Sertraline. The purpose of examining these is to try and see if we can predict signs of Dementia with Lewy bodies (a progressive form of dementia with an increase in decline of thinking, reasoning, and other functions). This may benefit others by enabling us to diagnose Dementia with Lewy Bodies sooner rather than later.

This study is about decision making in psychosis spectrum disorders, like schizophrenia. We will study how a single dose of a study agent called modafinil changes how people complete computer tasks and changes how the brain functions. We hope to improve our understanding of psychosis to help people in the future.

This study includes healthy adults between the ages of 21-70 who either use or do not cannabidiol (CBD) regularly. The purpose of this study is to learn about how CBD users and nonusers respond to stress. Participants must be willing to attend one in-person visit at the University of Minnesota Duluth campus

How strong is your squeeze? We’re inviting kids aged 2-12 to test their grip and help us establish new standards for hand strength. Your contribution allows our team to create more inclusive, accurately calibrated technology that works for everybody. Stop by the Minnesota State Fair Research Building for a Tyrannosaurus Flex to help us find the Fair-ly Normal Grip and help us build the future of interactive play!

How do you learn best, by watching or reading? With the rise of short videos on apps like TikTok, we’re studying how people prefer to learn about health. Participants at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building will learn about kidney stones either through a quick video or a simple pamphlet, like one you might get at a doctor’s office. Then, they’ll take a brief quiz and share their preferences. This study helps us understand the best ways to share health information, so patients feel more confident and empowered in their care.

Play Tetris while researchers at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building measure your brain activity to better understand how the brain works during gameplay.

Help researchers learn how common hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic skin condition, is among adults by answering a few health questions and having your skin checked for signs of HS at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building.

The Blue Ribbon Bladder Study is a project just for women. We want to learn more about how women manage everyday bladder issues and use what we learn to find better ways to support bladder health. Visit us at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building to learn more and share your experience! Help us make bladder health an easier part of everyday self-care.

Help researchers at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building learn how people naturally hold a pen while writing. This information may improve therapies that support handwriting skills.

The UMN Neuropsychology team invites you to the Minnesota State Fair Research Building to complete a brief health survey and a couple of quick cognitive tests to help us learn how different generations, from Silent and Boomers to Millennials and Gen Z, complete two executive functioning tasks.

Share what you know and think about dental therapists and oral health at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building. Your feedback will help improve communication and access to dental care.

How does your relationship handle stress? Complete a brief survey at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building about communication, coping, and connection to help researchers learn what keeps relationships strong.

Swab and rinse your mouth to help researchers study the bacteria that affect oral health. Participate in a quick activity at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building and take home a prize!

Share your opinions on topics that matter to the University of Minnesota by completing a brief public opinion survey at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building!

Share your thoughts about relationship violence and domestic abuse in this anonymous survey at the Minnesota State Fair Research Building. Your responses will help improve education and prevention efforts across Minnesota.

The aim of this study is to obtain newborn blood spots (NBS) and tumor specimens for children and adolescents diagnosed with malignant neoplasms.

We will enroll healthy pregnant women (following enrollment, all subsequent study procedures will be completed postpartum) or postpartum women on hormonal birth control or no hormonal birth control with either a recent history of smoking and a desire to remain abstinent after childbirth, or who are currently smoking and motivated to quit smoking. Participants will be recruited throughout the continental United States (US). Participants living in Minnesota (our clinical site) will receive a 12-week course of exogenous progesterone. Participants will be followed for six months with remote visits, self-administered surveys, and self-collection of dried blood spots to measure hormones and smoking-related biomarkers.

The University of Minnesota Registry for Epilepsy and Seizure Disorder Research (UM-REaSD) connects people interested in epilepsy and seizure disorder research with University of Minnesota researchers. By joining the registry, you can share your contact information and basic health information so researchers can contact you about future studies you may be eligible to participate in.

Respiratory illnesses, including ear and sinus infections, colds, and pneumonias, are among the most common infectious diseases affecting Minnesotans across their lifespan. These diseases can be caused by many different types of microbes—bacteria, viruses and fungi—and different types of microbes may require different kinds of treatment. This research is being done to learn more about the specific types of microbes that cause respiratory infections in children and adults across the state of Minnesota over time. Antimicrobial resistance happens when microbes develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. Through this study, we will learn which types of genes are carried by microbes living in the respiratory tract by collecting and analyzing nasal and oral specimen.

This study is being done to learn more about how hormone changes related to menstrual cycle disruption and underfueling in highly trained endurance athletes may affect blood pressure regulation, blood vessel function, and cardiovascular health. Researchers will measure heart rate, blood pressure, blood vessel function, and nervous system activity in endurance athletes to better understand how these factors differ between athletes.

The purpose of this study is to learn whether watching a short educational video changes what people know and think about transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a non-medication treatment for depression that uses magnetic pulses. Researchers will also compare different video styles to determine which is most effective at increasing knowledge and improving attitudes about TMS.

This study is exploring how children understand and form opinions about differences in how adults express their gender through appearance, speech, and behavior. Researchers are interested in learning how children think about gender expression and whether their perceptions vary based on different aspects of how gender is represented.

The purpose of this research is to better understand balance and walking in patients with Parkinson’s Disease. This research study uses small wearable devices that attach to clothing and can measure the body’s location while performing walking and balance tests.

This study is being done to learn more about how menopause influences the autonomic (fight or flight) and vascular (blood vessels) function in midlife females. To understand how blood pressure is regulated, we will make several measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, sympathetic function (also known as the fight or flight system), and how blood vessels regulate blood flow.

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a storybook-based tool that measures how children ages 4 and older understand and manage their emotions. Researchers will examine how children choose different emotion regulation strategies in a variety of situations, such as interactions with family, friends, or when alone, and how these skills relate to children's social and emotional development.

The purpose of this study is to collect 3D measurements of children's faces, heads, hands, and feet using a safe, non-invasive 3D scanner. These measurements will help researchers design and improve medical devices that better fit children's unique needs.

The purpose of our research study is to increase our understanding on the human lung immune response to infection. We aim to use this knowledge to develop novel approaches on the prevention and treatment of lung infections. To accomplish this, we plan to obtain cells from the airways and blood of healthy volunteers to perform immune experiments.

This research is being performed to examine how the spleen moves during breathing in various body positions and breathing conditions. Physical measurements of the participant's body will be recorded (weight, height, and body dimensions) and then noninvasive recordings of the spleen and breathing patterns will be recorded. The spleen motion will be measured using standard abdominal ultrasound imaging, and breathing will be measured with accelerometers (small devices about the size of a quarter that measure the movement of the chest during breathing).