Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory is working on a trio of portable diagnostic tools designed to revolutionize how the military detects brain injuries and monitors cognitive health in the field.
Since 2000, more than half a million US service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) from blast exposure, training accidents, and other causes. Quick detection has apparently become one of the hardest challenges for battlefield medics.
To close that gap, MIT researchers are advancing three platforms aimed at giving frontline medical teams faster, more reliable ways to assess soldiers.
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