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November 2022—The lack of tools for assessing traumatic brain injury has long bedeviled physicians. There’s CT. And then? “This has been an unmet medical need for years,” says Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD, the John McCrea Dickson, MD, professor of neurology and director of the Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. “As many of us know, it’s one of the major barriers that has hindered clinically advanced development of new therapies in TBI. And I think it’s pretty clear that the clinical evaluation alone leaves a lot to be desired.” “I am always frustrated that we have limited tools,” agrees Frederick Korley, MD, PhD, associate professor and associate chair for research in emergency medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and scientific director, Massey TBI Grand Challenge, Weil Institute, University of Michigan. That’s now on the cusp of changing. Blood-based biomarkers for brain injury may not be bellying up to the bar just yet, but they are starting to raise the bar for how physicians assess TBI.

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