Here are four highlights:
1. Dr. Filler was the lead inventor of Diffusion Tensor Imaging brain mapping technology.
2. DTI allows physicians to detect brain injury associated with battlefield head injury and severe concussions.
3. DTI didn’t receive national scientific funding, yet the technology advanced neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery.
4. Dr. Filler addressed Congress at the 5th Annual Brain Mapping Day on April 20.
“Scientific funding at the national level tends to favor incremental advances in well-known fields, but often fails to promote the sort of major transformative innovations that actually drive science and medicine forward,” said Dr. Filler.
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