Lerner Faculty Affiliate Bergen-Cico Granted NSF Funds to Support Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder

Lerner Faculty Affiliate Dessa Bergen-Cico Granted NSF Funding to Support Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder

September 21, 2021

Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Dessa Bergen-Cico, professor of public health, is the co-principal investigator along with principal investigator Asif Salekin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, on a novel grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) titled "Psychophysiological Sensing to Enhance Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Self-Regulation of Opioid Cravings." This study aims to support recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD), a leading public health problem in the U.S. Dr Bergen-Cico and Dr. Salekin will lead the development of wearable physiological sensing technologies that will help identify individual predictors of craving and relapse risk while also teaching participants how to use mindfulness-based practices to manage cravings and reduce neurophysiological responses associated with stress and relapse risks. You can read a more detailed description here https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124285&HistoricalAwards=false