Imaging Non-brain Electromagnetic Activity in Healthy Adults Using MEG (BODMEG)

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Whole-cortex MEG System (with optional EEG)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03232723

17-00684

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) instrument to record electrical activity from parts of the body other than the brain. This study will examine if electrical activity from parts of the body, other than the brain, can be imaged by the MEG instrument. Finding will contribute to studies of pain, since abnormal electrical activity in skeletal muscle is the basis of pain, which can be severe, yet there is no non-invasive way to image this abnormal activity. This is particularly relevant to deep muscle pain and back pain.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy adults who are willing and able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with characteristics incompatible with MEG recordings as listed on the MEG Safety checklist (Appendix A),
• Involuntary, uncontrolled tremor,
• chronic pain.
• pregnant women (based on self-report).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Device Feasibility

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

MEG Recording

Other group

Description:

Magnetic fields will be recorded using a 275-channel whole-head MEG system

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Whole-cortex MEG System (with optional EEG)