Healthy Paid Clinical Trials in Texas

The study is investigating dysfunctions in neurocircuitry in regards to irritability with healthy controls (HC) and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) by performing MRIs. The MDD group will also be randomized to receive ketamine or midazolam to investigate changes post-treatment in neurocircuitry with regards to irritability. Read Less

This study is open to people with and without severe liver problems. People can join the study if they are 18 to 80 years of age and have a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 42 kg/m2. Avenciguat (BI 685509) is a medicine that is being developed to treat high blood pressure in the portal vein (main vessel going to the liver). The purpose of this study is to find out whether having liver problems influences how Avenciguat (BI 685509) is taken up in the body. All participants take Avenciguat (BI 685509) once as a tablet. Participants are in the study for slightly longer than 1 month. Following the screening period of about 4 weeks, they stay at the study site for 4 nights. Afterwards, there are 2 visits to the study site. The site staff measures the amount of Avenciguat (BI 685509) in the blood. The doctors also regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to evaluate safety, tolerability, drug and food effects on relative bioavailability of BMS-986465 and its active derivative BMS-986464 in healthy participants and healthy participants of Japanese ethnicity. Read Less

The main purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of a single dose of LY3938577 in healthy participants and participants with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) (Part A) and multiple doses of LY3938577 in participants with T2DM (Part B). The study will last approximately 6 weeks for Part A and approximately 10 weeks for Part B respectively. Read Less

Chronic corticosteroid (CS) exposure is associated with changes in memory and the hippocampus in both humans and in animal models. The hippocampus has a high concentration of glucocorticoid receptors (GCRs), and the pre-clinical literature demonstrates shortening of apical dendrites in the CA3 region of the hippocampus and decreased neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (DG) following CS administration. In humans, both stress and CS exposure are associated with a decline in declarative memory performance (a process mediated by the hippocampus). Impairment in declarative memory and hippocampal atrophy are reported in patients with excessive CS release due to Cushing's disease, and, by our group, in patients receiving prescription CS therapy. These findings have important implications for patients with mood disorders, as a large subset of people with major depressive disorder (MDD) show evidence of HPA axis activation, elevated cortisol and, importantly, resistance to the effects of CSs on both the HPA axis and on declarative memory. Thus, resistance to corticosteroids appears to be a consequence of MDD. this study will examine changes in declarative memory, as well as use state-of-the-art high-resolution multimodal neuroimaging, including structural and functional (i.e., task-based and resting state) MRI, in both men and women healthy controls, and, as an exploratory aim, a depressed group, given 3-day exposures to hydrocortisone (160 mg/day) or placebo. The study will translate preclinical findings to humans, provide valuable data on possible sex differences in the response to cortisol and, for the first time, identify specific hippocampal subfields (e.g., CA3/DG) in humans that are most sensitive to acute CS effects. Using resting state fMRI data and whole brain connectomics using graph theoretical approaches, we will determine the effects of cortisol exposure on functional brain networks. Furthermore, this will be the first study to use neuroimaging to compare the brain's response to CSs in people with depression vs. controls, and determine whether depressed people demonstrate glucocorticoid resistance within the hippocampus. We hypothesize that hippocampal response to acute CSs will be greatest in the CA3/DG subfield, greater in women than in men, and that depressed people will show a blunted hippocampal response to CSs compared to controls. A multidisciplinary research team with extensive experience in CS effects on the brain and hippocampal subfield neuroimaging, and a prior history of research collaboration, will conduct the project. Read Less

To learn if an 8-week, phone-based texting intervention program will reduce sedentary (non-mobile) behavior. Read Less

The overall research objective of this proposal is to determine the acute and chronic impact of daily supplementation of a Good Health beverage on indices of physiological and neurocognitive health. Read Less

The purpose of this study to assess the relative bioavailability of 5 mg Mavacamten opened capsule administered via nasogastric tube compared to intact oral 5 mg Mavacamten in healthy volunteers. Read Less

This is a Phase 1, FIH, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study designed to assess the safety, tolerability, PK and PD after SAD and MAD in healthy adult participants. Read Less

The purpose of this research study is to understand the long-term effects of the drug phentermine on weight, blood pressure, other health outcomes, and safety. Phentermine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for weight management since 1959, but it has not been approved for long-term use (i.e., treatment lasting more than 12 weeks). This trial is designed to learn about the long-term effects of phentermine for up to 2 years because obesity is a chronic disease and expert guidelines recommend long-term use of anti-obesity medications as one treatment option. Read Less

The main purpose of this study is to measure how much of LY3502970 gets into the bloodstream and how long it takes the body to eliminate it in participants with mild, moderate and severe impaired liver function compared to participants with normal liver function. The safety and tolerability of LY3502970 will also be evaluated. The study may last up to 6 weeks for each participant including the screening period. Read Less

This is a Phase I, first-in-human, single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and PK of ascending doses of CBP-4888. Read Less