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The purpose of this research is to better understand how alcohol impacts pain processing in people with Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) using MRI technology.

The goal of this study is to learn more about a new way of gathering information about a person’s jaw muscle pain – taking scans of the jaw muscles while a person bites down on a special device. It is hoped that the information learned in this study will help the study team to design a bigger study on this new way of learning about jaw muscle pain, which may lead to better, more individualized treatments for jaw muscle pain for future patients.

We are asking people to participate in this study to help us learn more about how physiology (heart rate, sweating, temperature, etc.) of people with pain conditions changes based on perceived pain level. The goal is to use this information to help develop a new medical device designed to help better manage chronic pain, although we are only collecting information at this time, and there will be no treatment provided as part of this study. We expect that people will be in this research study for a maximum of 2 weeks.

We are studying brain mechanisms related to chronic temporomandibular disorder (TMD) pain. We are looking at brain structural and functional characteristics that can potentially explain why some people experience persistent pain in their jaws for months or years. We will compare this to information we get from people who do not experience TMD pain. We expect that this new knowledge will improve our understanding of this chronic pain condition and help us develop better treatments.