Charting Brain Growth over a Lifetime
June 28, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
“To create a series of charts tracking average brain development over the course of a lifetime, the researchers first needed to amass a huge dataset. Because fMRI brain imaging is a costly and time-consuming process, there was no way a single team could gather the necessary data. So the researchers looked to collaborate with hundreds of scientists around the world, each doing their own brain scan research. . . . . The massive project ultimately gathered 123,984 MRI scans from more than 100,000 human subjects. The scans spanned subjects as old as 100 years and as young as a fetus at 15 weeks.” MORE
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