Diagnosing sports-related concussion in teens

What The Study Did:

Researchers investigated the effectiveness of using measurements of how pupils react to light as physiologic biomarker to help diagnose sports-related concussion in adolescents.

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Christina L. Master, M.D., of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.

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