Article Excerpt: … under the auspices of the Dartmouth-based Northeast Node of the Clinical Trials Network (CTN), which is part of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a new project is underway to detect cocaine use via a smart watch. Lisa Marsch, PhD, the Andrew G. Wallace Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Geisel School of Medicine, and Santosh Kumar, PhD, a professor and the Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Computer Science at the University of Memphis, are leading an endeavor to develop and test a smart watch with a suite of sensors to detect inter-heartbeat data. Their study is funded by NIDA.
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