CINCINNATI – The potential for doctors to measure damaging “brain tsunamis” in injured patients without opening the skull has moved a step closer to reality, thanks to pioneering research at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute.

The research team, led by Jed Hartings, PhD, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, has shown that spreading depolarizations — electrical disturbances that spread through an injured brain like tsunami waves — can be measured by the placement of electroencephalograph ...