Eye-Sync Technology Helping Stanford Diagnose Concussions More Quickly
From: CBS Sports - 06/21/2017
By: Ryan Mayer

At Stanford University, the football program has adopted a new technology
that could help change the game in terms of diagnosing concussions.

The technology is called Eye-Sync, from the company SyncThink and it is the
brainchild of neurosurgeon Dr. Jam Ghajar, Director of the Stanford
Concussion and Brain Performance Center and a President of the Brain Trauma
Foundation. Eye-Sync is a portable, VR headset that, through an objective
test of the athlete’s eyes, can help sports medicine professionals determine
whether an athlete needs to be removed from play within a minute.

It works on the basis of eye-tracking. As Dr. Ghajar explained, when your
brain is functioning correctly, your eyes are not just providing vision, but
they’re also helping you to synchronize with your surrounding environment.
This process is what allows you to swing and connect with a tennis ball in
one smooth process as opposed to waiting for your eyes to diagnose where the
ball is and then starting your swing. When you take a hit to the head, that
process can be interrupted. That’s where Eye-Sync comes in.

Read the entire article and view a video ( at:
http://sports.cbslocal.com/2017/06/21/eye-sync-technology-helping-stanford-diagnose-concussions-more-quickly

Links:
Using VR to Diagnose Concussions
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/using-vr-to-diagnose-concussions

Eye-Sync
http://www.syncthink.com

Concussion and Brain Performance Center (with video 2:03)
https://med.stanford.edu/braincenter/mission_vision.html

Brain Trauma Foundation
https://www.braintrauma.org

The Six Types of Concussion Symptoms
http://www.traumaticbraininjury.net/the-six-types-of-concussion-symptoms-infographic

Virtual Reality to Examine Concussions
https://www.mdtmag.com/2017/10/photo-day-virtual-reality-examine-concussions

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Using VR to Diagnose Concussions
From: IEEE Spectrum - 09/21/2017
By: Megan Scudellari

A new approach to concussion screening is spreading to college football teams
nationwide.

In search of a more accurate, yet speedy way to diagnose concussions, Jamshid
Ghajar, a neurosurgeon and director of the Stanford Concussion and Brain
Performance Center, and a team at SyncThink, a Palo Alto, California-based
company, have developed a mobile eye tracking technology to diagnose
concussions based on clinical research. Their goal is to transform concussion
diagnoses from guesswork into an objective test.

Read the entire article at:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/using-vr-to-diagnose-concussions