My name is Eoin O’Connor, and I work with Eva Woods, in the McMackin Lab at Trinity College Dublin (https://www.mcmackinlab.com/). We have been running a study on Huntington’s Disease, a devastating neurological disease that affects all aspects of someone’s life from how they move, think and feel, for the past two years, and we are currently recruiting control individuals for comparison purposes. Anyone can take part, but we’re specifically looking for people who are 40+ years old.
“Based on previous work, the McMackin Lab at Trinity College Dublin have been awarded the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s Human Biology Fellowship which has allowed us to begin this new project. The aim of the project is to investigate the impacts of Huntington’s Disease on the brain using non-invasive tools so that we can improve our ability to develop effective treatments for Huntington’s Disease use new techniques to identify early markers in HD. Within this project, participants will take part in two sessions on the same day, which will involve taking images of your brain and also testing how different parts of your brain communicate with each other. Both are non-invasive and painless. We are looking for control participants, people who do not have Huntington’s Disease to contribute to this study.
What’s involved:
We are inviting individuals who are over 40 years of age to take part in this study. We are asking for a few hours of your time on one day for some non-invasive tests. There are no needles or blood draws involved.
If you are interested or would like more information about our research project, please feel free to contact us by emailing oconne57@tcd.ie. Your involvement will be instrumental in advancing our understanding of this disease!
Warm regards,
The ELECTRO-HD Team”