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| Name | Class |
|---|---|
| Solve ME/CFS Initiative | OTHER |
| Care Evolution | UNKNOWN |
| Columbia University | OTHER |
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The unhide® Project is a non-interventional, longitudinal research study designed to establish a secure data repository of demographic, health, and lifestyle information from individuals with brain inflammation and related neuroinflammatory conditions. Participants in the United States aged 2 years and older will provide self-reported health data, biometrics, and symptom diaries through the MyDataHelps™ app (branded as unhide® for this study). The goal is to create comprehensive longitudinal profiles to facilitate research into disease subtypes, causes, diagnostics, and potential treatments, as well as to identify potential participants for future optional studies. "Healthy" individuals without brain inflammation are also eligible to participate.
The digital health research platform used in this study was originally developed and designed by Solve M.E and was called SolveTogether. The Brain Inflammation Collaborative (BIC) expanded upon Solve M.E.'s work to include related diagnoses, pediatric participants, enhance symptom tracking, and more. BIC and Solve M.E. combined Solve Together and unhide®, to create The unhide® Solve Together Unified Platform in 2025.
The unhide® Project is sponsored by the Brain Inflammation Collaborative (BIC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neuroinflammatory illness. This study will create a secure, long-term repository of demographic, health, lifestyle, biometric, and symptom data from individuals in the United States with brain inflammation and related conditions, as well as unaffected individuals. Data will be collected remotely through MyDataHelps™ by Care Evolution (rebranded as unhide®), a secure mobile and web-based platform enabling eConsent, survey completion, health record linkage, and optional symptom/activity tracking.
Eligible participants are U.S. residents aged 2 years and older, including both self-identified and physician-diagnosed individuals with infection-associated, autoimmune, neuroimmune, inflammatory gastrointestinal, and behavioral/mood disorders, as well as "healthy" individuals. There are minimal exclusion criteria: individuals living outside the U.S., wards of the state, and those with decisional impairment are ineligible. Pregnant women may participate, and prior or concurrent participation in other research studies is permitted.
The study will follow participants for 10 or more years, collecting self-reported health information, comorbidities, medical history, biometrics (e.g., heart rate, sleep, activity), and symptom data to generate comprehensive longitudinal health profiles. This data resource aims to accelerate translational research, identify disease subtypes, uncover causes and risk factors, support the development of diagnostic tests and treatments, and improve outcomes for individuals affected by neuroinflammation.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| People with brain inflammation and related neuroinflammatory conditions | No intervention will be administered. | ||
| Healthy Controls | No intervention will be administered. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Phenotypic data collection | Collect, collate, clean, and analyze a large, well-characterized longitudinal dataset to investigate causes, disease progression, and potential treatments for complex chronic conditions, including infection-associated chronic diseases such as ME/CFS, Long COVID, PANS/PANDAS, autoimmune diseases, and neuroimmune disorders characterized at least in part by symptoms of neuroinflammation, including fatigue, brain fog, mood and behavioral changes, or other central or peripheral neurological symptoms. | From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| Subtyping | Use the patient reported outcomes to identify brain inflammation and other neuroinflammatory disease subtypes.
| From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| Passive data collection | Collect data from wearables that allow us to track step counts, heart rate variability and other indicators without the burden of participant data entry. | From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Demographics | Record basic demographic information of our Registry population including: age, race, ethnicity, income, education, employment, marital status. | From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 52 weeks |
| Comorbitities |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic Heath Record Linkage | Link EHR data to patient-reported outcomes in order to better identify neuroinflammation and neuroinflammatory conditions. | 36 months |
| Clinical Study Participation | Use the Unhide Platform to identify and invite eligible patients and controls to participate in clinical studies with academic, CRO, and pharmaceutical partners. |
Participants may be either self-diagnosed, or diagnosed by a physician with the following conditions:
Inflammatory gastrointestinal conditions such as Crohn's Disease, Celiac Disease, and ulcerative colitis.
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This is a study of individuals with brain inflammation and healthy controls.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan L Fitzgerald, PhD | Contact | 1-833-286-4433 | help@braininflammationcollaborative.org | |
| Christina Moon | Contact | 1-833-286-4433 | help@braininflammationcollaborative.org |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Megan L Fitzgerald, PhD | Brain Inflammation Collaborative | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain Inflammation Collaborative | Recruiting | Delafield | Wisconsin | 53018 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35816681 | Derived | Ramiller A, Mudie K, Seibert E, Whittaker S. The Facilitation of Clinical and Therapeutic Discoveries in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Diseases: Protocol for the You + ME Registry Research Platform. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Aug 10;11(8):e36798. doi: 10.2196/36798. |
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BIC Research Collaborators selected by the Brain Inflammation Collaborative will have access to data reports and biosamples from registry participants, in keeping with criteria of the specific collaborative investigation.
Data will be available to BIC Research Collaborators as long as the study remains active, and for a period thereafter to be determined.
BIC Research Collaborators will be selected based on mutual interest and on BIC's assessment that the Collaborator possesses knowledge, experience, and training that will benefit interpretation of registry data, and proposes a meritorious and feasible research project in line with BIC's research goals.
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Catalog common comorbidities in our registry population. Participants provide information on diagnosed conditions, age of onset, and whether the condition is still active. Their conditions list can be updated over time.
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| From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| Quality of Life and Functional Status | Quality of life and daily functioning will be assessed using standardized surveys. These include (but not limited to):
| From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| Symptoms | We aim to catalogue the common symptoms of brain inflammation and analyze the data for symptom-based phenotypes. We administer surveys to assess the frequency and severity of symptoms (including neuroinflammatory, behavioral, fatigue, etc.) over time and provide access to a mobile app so participants can log data on their symptoms as often as daily.
| From Baseline through up to 10 years, with assessments approximately every 4-12 weeks |
| 36 months |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D000094024 | Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome |
| D015673 | Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic |
| D012213 | Rheumatic Fever |
| D001171 | Arthritis, Juvenile |
| D015535 | Arthritis, Psoriatic |
| D013167 | Spondylitis, Ankylosing |
| D020274 | Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System |
| D002446 | Celiac Disease |
| D000077342 | Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome |
| D003424 | Crohn Disease |
| D001342 | Autonomic Nervous System Diseases |
| D000856 | Anorexia Nervosa |
| D052018 | Bulimia Nervosa |
| D000080146 | Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder |
| D004535 | Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome |
| D004715 | Endometriosis |
| D005356 | Fibromyalgia |
| D008881 | Migraine Disorders |
| D000090267 | Mast Cell Activation Syndrome |
| D009103 | Multiple Sclerosis |
| D009157 | Myasthenia Gravis |
| D009290 | Narcolepsy |
| D009771 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
| C537163 | Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections |
| C000631768 | Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome |
| D054972 | Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome |
| D000098647 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
| D000072861 | Phobia, Social |
| D003130 | Combat Disorders |
| D011565 | Psoriasis |
| D000070642 | Brain Injuries, Traumatic |
| D005879 | Tourette Syndrome |
| D015212 | Inflammatory Bowel Diseases |
| D001327 | Autoimmune Diseases |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D003093 | Colitis, Ulcerative |
| D000090862 | Neuroinflammatory Diseases |
| D004660 | Encephalitis |
| D019964 | Mood Disorders |
| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| D003863 | Depression |
| D013313 | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic |
| D005221 | Fatigue |
| D005222 | Mental Fatigue |
| D000092862 | Psychological Well-Being |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D000086382 | COVID-19 |
| D011024 | Pneumonia, Viral |
| D011014 | Pneumonia |
| D012141 | Respiratory Tract Infections |
| D007239 | Infections |
| D014777 | Virus Diseases |
| D018352 | Coronavirus Infections |
| D003333 | Coronaviridae Infections |
| D030341 | Nidovirales Infections |
| D012327 | RNA Virus Infections |
| D008171 | Lung Diseases |
| D012140 | Respiratory Tract Diseases |
| D000094025 | Post-Infectious Disorders |
| D002908 | Chronic Disease |
| D020969 | Disease Attributes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D009135 | Muscular Diseases |
| D009140 | Musculoskeletal Diseases |
| D004679 | Encephalomyelitis |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D009468 | Neuromuscular Diseases |
| D013290 | Streptococcal Infections |
| D016908 | Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections |
| D001424 | Bacterial Infections |
| D001423 | Bacterial Infections and Mycoses |
| D001168 | Arthritis |
| D007592 | Joint Diseases |
| D012216 | Rheumatic Diseases |
| D003240 | Connective Tissue Diseases |
| D017437 | Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases |
| D007154 | Immune System Diseases |
| D025242 | Spondylarthropathies |
| D025241 | Spondylarthritis |
| D013166 | Spondylitis |
| D013122 | Spinal Diseases |
| D001847 | Bone Diseases |
| D017444 | Skin Diseases, Papulosquamous |
| D012871 | Skin Diseases |
| D000089183 | Axial Spondyloarthritis |
| D000844 | Ankylosis |
| D008286 | Malabsorption Syndromes |
| D007410 | Intestinal Diseases |
| D005767 | Gastrointestinal Diseases |
| D004066 | Digestive System Diseases |
| D008659 | Metabolic Diseases |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D008193 | Lyme Disease |
| D016905 | Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections |
| D001899 | Borrelia Infections |
| D013145 | Spirochaetales Infections |
| D017282 | Tick-Borne Diseases |
| D000079426 | Vector Borne Diseases |
| D005759 | Gastroenteritis |
| D001068 | Feeding and Eating Disorders |
| D020141 | Hemostatic Disorders |
| D014652 | Vascular Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| D006474 | Hemorrhagic Disorders |
| D006402 | Hematologic Diseases |
| D006425 | Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases |
| D012868 | Skin Abnormalities |
| D000013 | Congenital Abnormalities |
| D009358 | Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities |
| D012873 | Skin Diseases, Genetic |
| D030342 | Genetic Diseases, Inborn |
| D003095 | Collagen Diseases |
| D005831 | Genital Diseases, Female |
| D052776 | Female Urogenital Diseases |
| D005261 | Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications |
| D000091642 | Urogenital Diseases |
| D000091662 | Genital Diseases |
| D051270 | Headache Disorders, Primary |
| D020773 | Headache Disorders |
| D001927 | Brain Diseases |
| D002493 | Central Nervous System Diseases |
| D000090362 | Mast Cell Activation Disorders |
| D020278 | Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, CNS |
| D003711 | Demyelinating Diseases |
| D020361 | Paraneoplastic Syndromes, Nervous System |
| D009423 | Nervous System Neoplasms |
| D009371 | Neoplasms by Site |
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
| D010257 | Paraneoplastic Syndromes |
| D019636 | Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| D020511 | Neuromuscular Junction Diseases |
| D006970 | Disorders of Excessive Somnolence |
| D020919 | Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic |
| D020920 | Dyssomnias |
| D012893 | Sleep Wake Disorders |
| D054971 | Orthostatic Intolerance |
| D054969 | Primary Dysautonomias |
| D010698 | Phobic Disorders |
| D040921 | Stress Disorders, Traumatic |
| D000068099 | Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders |
| D001930 | Brain Injuries |
| D006259 | Craniocerebral Trauma |
| D020196 | Trauma, Nervous System |
| D014947 | Wounds and Injuries |
| D001480 | Basal Ganglia Diseases |
| D013981 | Tic Disorders |
| D009069 | Movement Disorders |
| D020271 | Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System |
| D065886 | Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
| D003092 | Colitis |
| D003108 | Colonic Diseases |
| D007249 | Inflammation |
| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
| D001519 | Behavior |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D010549 | Personal Satisfaction |
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