UTA mechanical engineer publishes findings that show brain damage that could occur from blast-induced cavitation

Neural knowledgeAshfaq Adnan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, and his postdoctoral associate Yuan Ting Wu recently published research findings in Nature’s Scientific Reports  revealing that if battlefield blasts may cause cavitation in the brain’s perineuronal nets, which, in turn, may collapse and cause neuronal damage. Cavitation is the development of bubbles, much like those that develop around a ship’s spinning propellers. Existing scans and medical technology cannot