Not exact matches
«The importance of this study is that it establishes a reliable test and a «
biological»
marker for
detecting concussion,» Dr. Grady says.
«This opens a new door in identifying
biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to
detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.
Fluorescent dyes, which are frequently used as
markers in
biological experiments, are particularly hard to
detect in Raman spectroscopy because the fluorescence tends to wash out the signal.