Concussions Can Be Diagnosed With a Simple App Now

It ’s estimated that every year in the US there are 1.6 million to 3.8 million sports - colligate traumatic brain injuries . And if not diagnosed in a well-timed and accurate way , they can run to further complications including imprint and even suicide . So researchers at the University of Notre Dame have explicate avoice recognition iPad appthat listen for signs of a brain trauma in someone ’s speech , providing an almost instant diagnosis .

What ’s particularly superb is that the test does n’t have to be lot by a doctor or even a medic . As long as an athlete can hold an iPad , they can do the requisite step in the examination .

The app first put down a baseline sample of the subject reading a serial of phrases before a competition . And then after the event , or after a particularly terrible injury , they read the same idiom again which the software compares to the original recording looking for brain injury symptoms like distorted vowels , imprecise harmonized orthoepy , and hyper nasality . Not only is it remarkably accurate , but the test ca n’t be fooled by an athlete hoping to stay in the game . [ University of Notre DameviaGizmag ]