Biomarker’s Potential for Diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injury Solidified

Speed is key for medical diagnostics and critical for delivering the appropriate treatment in trauma cases—especially for neurological injuries. Identifying key markers for traumatic brain injury (TBI) is imperative since it is often difficult to evaluate the extent of damage or predict how long the impairment will last or whether it will worsen. Now, investigators from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have identified a brain lipid molecule, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), that was