November 21, 2025Anna Parisi, substance use disorder and addictive behavior expert, reveals how mindfulness interventions may enhance awareness of one’s bodily sensations, and how this enhanced awareness may decrease the risk of opioid misuse in individuals experiencing chronic pain.
November 4, 2025From lab to life: How virtual reality and wearable sensors are transforming SUD recovery.
August 18, 2025Harnessing VR to prevent substance use relapse
August 15, 2025Holly Matto, addiction science researcher, and College of Science and School of Engineering colleagues provide breakthrough findings about personalized recovery cues and technology-based substance use interventions.
September 20, 2023A George Mason University multidisciplinary research team recently received $5,000 in funding from the VentureWell Accelerator to continue to develop their app iCONNECT SUD.
March 30, 2023Mason graduate student Rebecca Leung is part of a team finding ways to use smart technology in order to help those who are struggling with or recovering from substance use disorder (SUD).
October 19, 2020Faculty members Holly Matto, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Stephanie Carmack, and Nathalia Peixoto, and graduate student Matthew Scherbel, are working with Brightline Interactive to examine the effects of recovery cues, using virtual reality simulations, on neurophysiological regulation to prevent drug relapse.
