Unhide® Project: A Digital Health Platform to Collect Lifestyle Data for Brain Inflammation Research

Study Purpose

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.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms

Yes
Study Type

An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes.


An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes.


Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.

Observational [Patient Registry]
Eligible Ages 2 Years and Over
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Participants may be either self-diagnosed, or diagnosed by a physician with the following conditions:

  • - Infection-associated chronic conditions such as Long COVID, chronic Lyme, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), and post-acute neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS/PANDAS).
  • - Neuroimmune, developmental, autonomic, and neurological conditions like migraines, dysautonomia, POTS, multiple sclerosis, and autism spectrum disorder.
  • - Autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, Sjogren's Disease, rheumatoid arthritis, myasthenia gravis, ankylosing spondylitis, and related autoimmune conditions.
Inflammatory gastrointestinal conditions such as Crohn's Disease, Celiac Disease, and ulcerative colitis.
  • - Behavioral and mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, eating disorders, OCD, and other related conditions.
  • - "Healthy" people (without brain inflammation), including unaffected individuals, unaffected individuals in the same household, and unaffected individuals who are married to relatives and family members.
  • - Have consistent internet access and a cell phone, tablet, or PC since this is an online or app-based platform that requires entering data and completing surveys.
  • - Currently live in the United States.
- Be able to participate in English (stay tuned for updates about the Spanish language version) - Be willing to share symptom and health data through the platform

Trial Details

Trial ID:

This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.

NCT04806620
Phase

Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans.

Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data.

Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs.

Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.

Lead Sponsor

The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.

Brain Inflammation Collaborative
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Megan L Fitzgerald, PhD
Principal Investigator Affiliation Brain Inflammation Collaborative
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Recruiting
Countries United States
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, ME/CFS, Rheumatic Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), Autoimmune Encephalitis, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Celiac Disease, Celiac Disease in Children, Chronic Lyme Disease, Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, Crohn's Disease, Dysautonomia, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, ARFID, Avoidant / Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia (FM), Long COVID, Lupus, Major Depression, Migraines, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Myasthenia Gravis, Generalized, Myasthenia Gravis in Children, Narcolepsy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PANDAS, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), POTS - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, General Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psoriasis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Tourette's Syndrome, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Autoimmune Diseases, Neurological Diseases or Conditions, Psychiatric Disorder, Sjogren's Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease
Additional Details

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.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

: People with brain inflammation and related neuroinflammatory conditions

No intervention will be administered.

: Healthy Controls

No intervention will be administered.

Interventions

Contact a Trial Team

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Brain Inflammation Collaborative, Delafield 5250393, Wisconsin 5279468

Status

Recruiting

Address

Brain Inflammation Collaborative

Delafield 5250393, Wisconsin 5279468, 53018

Site Contact

Christy Jagdfeld, CPA

[email protected]

833-286-4433

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