Engineering researcher wins Naval Research support to measure when and how battlefield blasts injure brain neurons

Neuron damageA University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher supported by the Office of Naval Research is developing a computational model to measure how and when battlefield blasts can cause devastating damage to neurons in the brain. Ashfaq Adnan, an assistant professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , will measure the blasts on a computer, then forward that information to partners at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., which will then use Adnan’s data and compare it to existing soldiers’ data. The work is supported by a three-