Long-term symptoms of concussions can now be predicted by doctors, after a team of researchers used functional MRI to track activity in the brain.
Pratik Mukherjee, PhD, professor radiology and biomedical imaging and his team at the University of California-San Francisco created a non-invasive MRI method that highlights specific patterns of brain activity, pointing to an increased risk of long-term symptoms.
Researchers scanned 75 patients who suffered concussions within two weeks of the study. The participants were between the ages of 18 and 55.
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