William Mehring, assistant clinical research coordinator for Stanford's Center for Clinical Research, holds a football players mouthguard with sensors built in it to study concussions at Menlo School in Atherton, Calif., on October 17, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
ATHERTON, California: For spectators, Menlo School's rough-and-tumble football games are as traditional as autumn leaves, apple cider and crisp air.
But the young athletes are wearing something high-tech and hidden: custom-designed mouth guards with motion sensors, collecting data that reveals what happens to the brain in the moments after a hit.
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