Lauren Evans
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Lauren Evans
@laurenevans.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Monash University
Instrumented mouthguards + blood biomarkers in Australian football
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New paper from our lab investigating the #Dx performance of #GFAP at different times following #concussion in Aus #football 🏉

GFAP demonstrated the highest performance at discriminating between concussed and non-concussed players at 16-24h post-injury, potentially aiding #diagnosis 🧠

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Next-Day Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Levels to Aid Diagnosis of Sport-Related Concussion | Neurology
Background and ObjectivesPrevious studies on sport-related concussion (SRC) may have measured brain injury blood-based biomarker, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), either before or after its pea...
www.neurology.org
February 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
My first first-author paper is published in Sports Medicine ☺️‼️
We found associations between #InstrumentedMouthguard-derived head acceleration events & elevated blood #biomarkers of #brain cell injury in Australian #football 🧠
@monashuniversity.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Associations Between Instrumented Mouthguard-Measured Head Acceleration Events and Post-Match Biomarkers of Astroglial and Axonal Injury in Male Amateur Australian Football Players - Sports Medicine
Background Advances in instrumented mouthguards (iMGs) allow for accurate quantification of single high-acceleration head impacts and cumulative head acceleration exposure in collision sports. However...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 AM