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Professional Bull rider Ty Pozzobon diagnosed with CTE

Ty Pozzobon, a 25-year-old professional bull rider from Merritt, British Columbia, Canada died January 9, 2017, from suicide.

Dr. Lynn McGrath demonstrates PupilScreen

PupilScreen aims to allow parents, coaches, medics to detect concussion, brain injuries with a smartphone

PupilScreen, a smartphone app that uses artificial intelligence and the light from the smartphone's camera to detect concussions and other brain injuries, is featured in UW News.

Jesse Woodbury and Rajiv Saigal work in the lab

Immersive research experience gives undergraduate students a strong foundation for success

Jesse Woodbury enrolled in the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering’s (CSNE’s) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program for the summer of 2017, and worked in Neurological Surgery…

TBI's effect over 80,000 in the armed forces

Dr. Christine Mac Donald interviewed on KARE 11 News about Traumatic Brain Injury in soldiers

KARE 11 News in Minnesota featured a story on Associate Professor Christine Mac Donald's recent findings that question the medical belief that those with traumatic brain injuries stabilize in the…

UW electrical engineering doctoral candidate and CSNE team member Margaret Thompson performs laboratory tests on a Medtronic deep brain stimulator to verify that the new closed-loop system for essential tremor functions as intended. Mark Stone/University of Washington

Brain signals deliver first targeted treatment for world’s most common movement disorder

Essential Tremor affects an estimated 7 million people in the U.S. alone and can be treated with Deep Brain Stimulation, where an electrode stimulates the brain to quiet the symptoms.