Michigan Clinical AR Pain (MCARP) Unit at the Headache and Orofacial Pain Effort (H.O.P.E.) Laboratory, U-M School of Dentistry

Principal Investigator(s): A. F. DaSilva Links to an external site.

Co-investigator(s): T. Hall, E. Maslowski, S. Petty, S. O’Malley, T. Nascimento, X. Hu, H. Jassar, D. Burnett, E. Pantzlaff, N. Wigington, D, Schwitzer, L. Khatib, R. McMahan, L. Ashman, S. Feinberg, T. Danciu

Unit(s) involved: U-M School of Dentistry; Center for Human Growth and Development; U-M UM3DLab, Library, U-M

Summary: The H.O.P.E. Laboratory is decoding brain activity during clinical pain and anxiety, with the patient in a dental chair, combining neuroimaging, VR and AR.

MCARP technology will join several other technologies developed between our group and collaborators, especially the UM3D Lab, to build the conceptual pain clinic of the future.

This clinic includes real-time brain activity visualization, using neuroimaging and AR headsets (i.e. HoloLens), breathing visualization with a VR headset (i.e. Oculus Rift), mobile technologies, and other advanced projects for pain/migraine research, education, and treatment.