by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2022 | Medical
Are you ready for some good news? Let’s start with a blunt reality. “We know very little about the brain,” writer Vivian Lam quoted Neurosurgery Professor Lu Chen in Stanford Medicine’s Scope blog. “We are still in need of an understanding of the...
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by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2020 | Medical
Last year we covered RightEye’s announcement of Brain Health EyeQ, an eye-tracking platform for medical diagnosis and performance training. EyeQ uses a tablet equipped with cameras to track small eye movements called saccades. The platform analyzes the movement...
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by Bruce Brown | June 5, 2018 | General News, Health
Concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) accounted for 6.5% of reported sports and recreation-related injuries in a nine-year longitudinal study published in 2011 by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Among males ages 10-19, football...
by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a bump, blow, or jolt to the head can be deadly. TBI consequences can last a few days or persist for the remainder of the injured person’s life. TBI contributes to approximately 30% of all injury deaths in...
by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the insidious aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is that in most cases, the damage is not visible. The gold standard for diagnosis is a CT scan, but this is not possible on the battlefield or football field. Medical personnel are generally limited to...
