Multi-dimensional Brain Measurements Can Assess Child’s Age
Timing of brain maturation is more tightly controlled than
previously known
A national team of researchers have developed a
multidimensional set of brain measurements that, when taken together, can
accurately assess a child’s age with 92 percent accuracy.
“We have uncovered a ‘developmental clock’ within the
brain—a biological signature of maturation that captures age differences quite
well regardless of other kinds of differences that exist across individuals,”
said first author Timothy T. Brown, PhD, a developmental cognitive
neuroscientist.