A Hearing Test May Be Able to Identify a Concussion

A Hearing Test May Be Able to Identify a Concussion
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Call it the Telltale Brain. The first objective measurement for concussion may have been identified, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature, Scientific Reports.

By measuring the brain's electrical reactions to speech sounds, researchers at Northwestern University were able to identify children who had suffered a recent concussion with 90 percent accuracy and those who hadn't with 95 percent accuracy.



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