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Oculogica Founder Dr. Uzma Samadani is featured in a story Elena Bergeron at the NY Times. [Click\\
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here](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/sports/football/tua-tagovailoa-nfl-concussions.html) to read the full article.

Concussions can cause much subtler symptoms, including headaches, sluggishness

and difficulty sleeping, some of which are not present immediately after a trauma.

The absence of obvious symptoms makes the type of instant diagnosis that is urged

in the N.F.L. difficult without the adoption of updated tools that can measure

concussion symptoms with a higher degree of specificity.

“Basically, anything that your brain controls can be disrupted by a concussion,” said

Dr. Uzma Samadani, a neurosurgeon who was an unaffiliated neurotrauma

consultant for four years at Minnesota Vikings games and who developed an eye-

tracking device to more definitively diagnose concussions. “Is it possible to make an

objective assessment of someone’s total capacity of brain function on the sideline

that rapidly? It’s very difficult.”

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