{"id":1669,"date":"2025-02-27T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/?page_id=1669"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:54:21","slug":"immune-functioning-and-social-reward-processing-in-autism-arise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/research\/for-research-participants\/participate-in-our-research\/studies-currently-enrolling-participants\/immune-functioning-and-social-reward-processing-in-autism-arise\/","title":{"rendered":"Immune Functioning and Social Reward Processing in Autism (ARISE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"www-somHeader\">Description of Study<\/h2>\n<p>The purpose of this research study is to investigate the relationship between neural response to rewards, inflammation, autistic traits, and quality of life in adults, ages 18-40.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"www-somHeader\">Recruiting Information<\/h2>\n<p>Participants will include healthy autistic and typically developing adults ages 18-40 years, without current immune-related or neurological conditions. Participation includes a clinical characterization visit, study questionnaires, and one electroencephalography (EEG) recording session at the Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities (CIDD). You will also provide a small blood sample at the Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC).<\/p>\n<p>Contact Kaitlin Cummings at <a href=\"mailto:neurospark@unc.edu\">neurospark@unc.edu<\/a> or call (984) 542-7703.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"www-somHeader\">Additional Information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2025\/02\/EEG_RecruitmentAd.pdf\">Download Study Brochure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this research study is to investigate the relationship between neural response to rewards, inflammation, autistic traits, and quality of life in adults, ages 18-40. Participants will include healthy autistic and typically developing adults ages 18-40 years, without current immune-related or neurological conditions. Participation includes a clinical characterization visit, study questionnaires, and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/research\/for-research-participants\/participate-in-our-research\/studies-currently-enrolling-participants\/immune-functioning-and-social-reward-processing-in-autism-arise\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Immune Functioning and Social Reward Processing in Autism (ARISE)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55430,"featured_media":0,"parent":1681,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}