{"id":195490,"date":"2024-08-31T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/diagnosing-traumatic-brain-injury-with-a-handheld-device"},"modified":"2024-08-31T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:40:12","slug":"diagnosing-traumatic-brain-injury-with-a-handheld-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/diagnosing-traumatic-brain-injury-with-a-handheld-device","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing traumatic brain injury with a handheld device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diagnosing-traumatic-brain-injury-with-a-handheld-device.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The retina and optic nerve share most of the brain\u2019s biochemical properties \u2013 this way, they provide a \u2018window\u2019 into the biochemistry of the brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To address this lack of technological means for the early detection of TBI, Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, a Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology at the University of Birmingham, UK, has developed a groundbreaking laser-based, eye-safe device (EyeD) technology. This technology can detect molecular changes that reflect brain damage by scanning the back of the eye with a handheld device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retina and optic nerve share most of the brain\u2019s biochemical properties \u2013 this way, they provide a \u2018window\u2019 into the biochemistry of the brain. To address this lack of technological means for the early detection of TBI, Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, a Professor in Micro-Engineering and Bio-Nanotechnology at the University of Birmingham, UK, has developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}