Mental Health - The New Normal Movement

Let’s get in a fight.

The best way to defeat mental illness is for everyday people like you to get in the research study ring and become a part of the fight to find cures and new treatments.

Explore mental health opportunites here.

Ways to Help Humanity

Sick of trial and error to find the right medicine for your mental health condition? Let’s see if using brain measures might one day help people like you get on the right medicine from the start!

People with certain mental health conditions often have to experiment with their doctor to find the best medicine and dose. This can take a lot of time! Let's work on using brain measures to predict which medicine will be most helpful.

Whether you have depression or not, share info about your mental health, activity, and more. It might help find the warning signs of depression and lead to new ways to prevent it!

Millions of Americans have depression. And it can come back after it’s been treated. Whether you’ve had depression or not, share data about your mental health, activity, and meds. It might help identify the warning signs of depression returning. This might lead to new ways to intervene beforehand.

Calling all Black males aged 15-24! Are you sick of violence in your neighborhood? Team up to help develop a violence prevention app!

Young Black men and boys are more likely to be exposed to various forms of violence. Alcohol or drug use often spark this violence. Team up if you want this to end! Help develop an app that gives options and strategies to stop addiction and avoid violence.

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Retrain your brain: Test a new app that may help you control your emotions with bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder hits nearly six million Americans. Your condition may make it hard for you to control your emotions and focus your attention. A new app may help sharpen your focus and how you process emotional info to ease the effect of your disorder. It’s like exercise for your brain!

Think better, feel better – your virtual coach can talk to you now! Team up to help test a voice-based virtual coach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help with emotional wellbeing.

About 4 in 10 American adults have depression or anxiety. If you’re one of them, let’s see if talking to a virtual coach might help you solve problems and ease depression or anxiety symptoms!

Might a painless brain stimulation one day be used to treat depression? Whether or not you have depression, team up to help find out!

More than 21 million Americans suffer from depression each year. Let’s see whether a painless electrical stimulation applied to the head might relieve depression symptoms.

Have a spare 10 minutes? Sign up for a registry that could connect you with studies about dementia and healthy aging!

36 million people have dementia, including Alzheimer’s. Add your name to a list of people working to cut that number, whether or not you’re sick. Signing up will help connect you to studies you might like to join. This might help advance research about dementia and healthy aging.

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Track your phone use and moods, whether you’re healthy or have ever had depression. You might help pave the way for better mental health care for teens!

For teens 13 to 18! Team up to better understand the link between mental health and phone use. Depression often starts in the teen years and treatments aren’t always effective. Share your phone habits and mood, whether or not you’ve had depression. It might help pave the way for better treatments!

Try a pill that’s used to treat high cholesterol. It might help prevent heart disease, dementia, or disability!

Heart disease and dementia are two of the leading causes of death for older adults in the U.S. Try a pill that’s already used to treat high cholesterol. Let’s see if it helps prevent those diseases and age-related disability. It might pave the way for a pill to help people stay healthy as they age.

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Do you help care for someone with Parkinson’s Disease or Dementia with Lewy bodies? Let’s see if an online program might help people like you cope with the stress of caregiving.

More than 2.4 million Americans have Lewy body dementia (LBD). Caring for a person with LBD can impact physical and mental health. If you’re a caregiver, team up to help test an online program for caregivers like you! You can do this study from anywhere in the country!

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Have you experienced a traumatic event? Think you might have PTSD? Team up to help see if talk therapy combined with a special treatment is better at treating PTSD than just therapy alone.

About 12 million adults suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during any given year. If you have PTSD or are struggling with overcoming a traumatic event, team up to help test a new way to treat trauma. You might help yourself and others like you recover!

Wait, What?

A lot of us struggle with anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions – nearly one in five Americans! But whether you’re healthy or want to be, you can be a part of changing that —and help make discoveries on ways to boost people’s mental health!

Woah. How?

By teaming up with science and participating in research studies. You can even do some from home!! Yes, whether you’re healthy, sick, or recovered, TNN Match connects you with info on studies that need volunteers (or as we call them VIPs—very important participants) to help make mental health breakthroughs. Plus, that info is what guides government policies and decisions. Sorta (definitely) a big deal.

Okay, but why me?

Counterpoint: Why not you? But really: The New Normal™ movement wants to help you feel helpful and hopeful instead of helpless. By signing up to learn about joining a research study (some of which are as simple as taking an at-home survey!) you can become an active part of fighting mental illness and finding ways to optimize mental health – and saving the lives of your loved ones and people around the world. And that’s no small potatoes.

What happens when I join?

When you sign up for TNN Match, you become a part of the huge team that’s working so hard to help humanity.

Here are a few things that can only happen if people like you join the fight:

It takes only 5 minutes to sign up,

and from there every step is intuitive and simple—with notifications whenever there’s a research study you could be a match for.

We’re in the fight of our lifetimes, and health research literally cannot happen without humans like you.

Mental illness won't know what hit it.

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