USU Neuroscience

gling@usuhs.mil
 
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1982
M.D., Georgetown University, 1989
 
Central Nervous System Inflammation
 
Dr. Ling's lab is interested in ameliorating the consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI). To this end, his laboratory is taking a multi-faceted approach to improving the understanding of the basic neurophysiological processes associated with the three leading military relevant types of TBI. These etiologies are closed head or concussive injury, penetrating ballistic injury and explosive blast injury. The group uses preclinical models of all 3 diseases. Each model is used to help elucidate the contributions of both primary and secondary events. It is well recognized that secondary or delayed injury plays an important role in both survival and neurological outcome. A variety of techniques are used in these studies to include surgery, physiological monitoring, neurological outcome assessment, electrochemiluminescence, ELISA, etc. Another aspect of this research effort is exploring novel diagnostic techniques and therapies that might improve both clinical management and treatment of brain injury. New technologies have been developed to improve pre-hospital diagnosis of disease as well as those that can be used to medically support patients.
 
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