Individual variations in Brain age relate to early life factors more than to longitudinal brain change
Dídac Vidal-piñeiro A, Yunpeng Wang, Stine Kleppe Krogsrud, Inge K. Amlien, William F.C. Baaré, David Bartrés-faz A, Lars Bertram, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Christian Andre Drevon, Sandra Düzel, Klaus P. Ebmeier, Richard N. Henson, Carme Junqué, Rogier Kievit, Simone Kühn, , Anders M. Fjell
This study finds that adult brain age is more influenced by early life factors like birth weight and polygenic scores than by longitudinal brain decline.
eLife · Nov 10, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience