{"id":7657,"date":"2019-08-09T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/recruiting-study-volunteers-for-brain-disease-research\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:09:31","slug":"recruiting-study-volunteers-for-brain-disease-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/recruiting-study-volunteers-for-brain-disease-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting study volunteers for brain disease research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The key to improving outcomes for patients with degenerative brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson\u2019s disease or Alzheimer\u2019s disease could be sitting right there in our kitchens and in the meals we eat.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Research at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) is telling us this is a possibility and PhD student Zac D\u2019Alonzo is recruiting participants for a study to further investigate this line of research inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Study participants will be invited to consume meals containing one of two plant-derived oils, or no oil. Several small blood samples are subsequently taken for analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To arrange a pre-study screening to see if you qualify, and to find out more please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/now-recruiting-study-participants-for-brain-disease-research-registration-68404631093\">register your interest<\/a> or contact <a href=\"http:\/\/chiri.curtin.edu.au\">CHIRI<\/a> by phone 0404 411 589 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zachary.dalonzo@postgrad.curtin.edu.au\/\"><span class=\"s2\">email<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If selected, you will receive a range of results from the study that are relevant to heart health. You would also receive a voucher for your time commitment upon the study\u2019s completion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By participating in this study you will be supporting CHIRI\u2019s work to identify new prevention and treatment strategies for adult diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute need your help to progress important research that has the potential to improve outcomes for patients with brain diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":7658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Zac_OASIS.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 06:50:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}