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Computer scientist asking for a hand (self.neuroscience)
submitted 11y ago by TakaOkami
First things first, let me give you guys a background on what's going on.
I'm a CS grad student working on a project for real-time systems. Embedded systems and whatnot, hard and soft deadlines, etc. Probably not too interesting to you guys, but still. My group is working on a helmet that has an accelerometer and a wireless transmitter within. When a person gets hit (such as a football player on the line of scrimmage), it crunches the data from the accelerometer to determine if there was possible concussive injury. We'd heard of some studies that indicated that minor trauma over a period of time can be just as threatening as a single major trauma, so we also intend to keep a history of impacts with the helmet. There will be a data API that will allow the coach, fieldside medic, and whoever else needs it to be able to access the data.
Now, the thing that we're actually having issues with is how to determine whether a "hit" is actually dangerous or not. My group member talked to a friend of his who is in this field, but all he could get out of him is "impacts to the head are bad". We need to know the severity of impacts to worry about, what kind of acceleration to be concerned over (simple linear shock, rotational shock, etc.), and really whatever else we can get from this. Any thoughts?
**tl;dr Need to know basic information about traumatic brain injury **
I'm a CS grad student working on a project for real-time systems. Embedded systems and whatnot, hard and soft deadlines, etc. Probably not too interesting to you guys, but still. My group is working on a helmet that has an accelerometer and a wireless transmitter within. When a person gets hit (such as a football player on the line of scrimmage), it crunches the data from the accelerometer to determine if there was possible concussive injury. We'd heard of some studies that indicated that minor trauma over a period of time can be just as threatening as a single major trauma, so we also intend to keep a history of impacts with the helmet. There will be a data API that will allow the coach, fieldside medic, and whoever else needs it to be able to access the data.
Now, the thing that we're actually having issues with is how to determine whether a "hit" is actually dangerous or not. My group member talked to a friend of his who is in this field, but all he could get out of him is "impacts to the head are bad". We need to know the severity of impacts to worry about, what kind of acceleration to be concerned over (simple linear shock, rotational shock, etc.), and really whatever else we can get from this. Any thoughts?
**tl;dr Need to know basic information about traumatic brain injury **
ArkHazy 3 points
You may have better luck asking in /r/neuro or /r/medicine. Of the 300+ readers of this sub i'm not sure many of them deal with blunt force trauma.
TakaOkami [OP] 1 points
Understood. I'll go post there as well. Thanks for your help!
TottallyOffTopic 2 points
There's a lot of interest in this field. The deal with long term damage from otherwise mild TBI is thought to result in long term changes to the brain that can induce mood swings, amongst other types of neurological damage. There is significant research effort towards identifying biomarkers for this form of neurological damage. This type of neurological disorder is also commonly seen in proffessional boxers or really any sport that involves frequent head trauma. Just because you can get back up after it doesn't necessarily mean that the damage hasn't been done. Because the damage is incremental though and long-term, you don't really see the effects in any sort of observable time window (at least not right now).
A good article to read is http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/football-concussion-controversy-new-rules?page=2
This is probably the main group you should be looking at for information.
http://www.bu.edu/cste/
That's where NFL players keep donating their brains (Dave Duerson shot himself in the heart to make this possible).
Finally a paper to read for you
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945234/
A good article to read is http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/football-concussion-controversy-new-rules?page=2
This is probably the main group you should be looking at for information.
http://www.bu.edu/cste/
That's where NFL players keep donating their brains (Dave Duerson shot himself in the heart to make this possible).
Finally a paper to read for you
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945234/
TakaOkami [OP] 1 points
Thank you so much, boyo. I'm going to crunch through this data and see what I can get in terms of objective data. I owe you one.
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