Understanding the brain and the person behind it
The concussion project reflects this, bringing together audiology, speech-language pathology, child neurodevelopment and rehabilitation to test whether an additional objective signal could support clinical assessment without replacing it.
Lamb believes children who suffer a concussion should be looked after holistically for six months to two years, with attention paid to auditory and visual processing, school performance, attention and concentration.
The focus on children and adolescents is deliberate, with the project considering how concussion can affect areas such as learning, communication, hearing, executive functioning, mood and everyday participation, not only sporting performance.
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