TMS and Fear Memory Study

Duration: 4 visits in total; First Session - 1 hour; Second Session - 30 mins; Third Session - 1.5 hours; Fourth Session - 30 mins

Procedure: First Session - Participants will complete an online questionnaire and undergo a resting-state fMRI scan;

Second Session - Participants will be presented with visual and auditory stimuli;

Third Session - Participants will receive a TMS intervention;

Fourth Session - Participants will be presented with visual and auditory stimuli.

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Reimbursement: Earn HK$450 or course credits

Eligibility:
1. Aged 18 - 40 
2. Normal or corrected-to-normal vision (with contact lenses)
3. Absence of neurological or psychiatric diseases
4. No implanted metal inside body

5. No previous involvement in trauma or fear memory experiments conducted by our lab

6. No participation in any brain stimulation study in the past 3 months

If you are interested in participating, please
email cpanlab@hku.hk or fill in the form via https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41nE8hTZXn4253U?Q_CHL=qr.

fNIRS Study on Neuro-psycho-social Functioning of Parental Substance Use (recruiting healthy control participants)

Duration:

First session (in-person): 3-3.5 hours in total

Second session (online, 6 months after first session): 0.5 hours

Procedure:

First session: Participants will first complete a battery of questionnaires, computer tasks, and in-person interview. Then, participants will listen to sounds and view pictures of infants with their neural responses recorded by functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Second session: Participants will complete an online questionnaire battery

Reimbursement: Earn HK$300

Eligibility:
1. Healthy female aged 25 - 40 
2. No history of substance misuse
3. Mother of at least one child aged 0-5 years old
4. No history of psychiatric or neurological illnesses

5. Right-handedness

If you are interested in participating, please
email tylee11@hku.hk or fill in the form via https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8nUYU3uI4bph6aW.