URI researchers build low-cost device to reveal hidden damage from brain injuries

Matthew McNulty

12/19/2025

REVEALING INVENTION: University of Rhode Island associate professor Claudia Fallini, right, and postdoctoral fellow Riccardo Sirtori display a small, low-cost device they helped develop at URI’s South Kingstown campus to study the long-term degenerative effects of traumatic brain injury.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Traumatic brain injuries are far more common than many realize. Globally, more than 65 million people suffer such trauma each year, University of Rhode Island researchers say. In the Ocean State alone, more than 12,000 residents will sustain a traumatic brain injury by the end of 2025, according to the Brain Injury Association of Rhode

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