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Writer: Dr. Nicole Sanford @ University of British Columbia A new study using UK Biobank data suggests that lifestyle and physical health may help explain why some people with depression show signs of accelerated brain ageing while others do not. Researchers analysed lifestyle, physical health, and social factors in 896 adults with depression and 36,206 participants without a psychiatric illness to better understand the links between everyday habits and brain ageing. The rese

Writer: Dr. Ruiyang Ge @ University of British Columbia A new study has published in PNAS found that models based on brain scans can work well for people from many different ethnoracial backgrounds, without needing to build separate models for different racial or ethnic groups. The findings help answer an important question about whether brain-imaging tools developed using large datasets can be used fairly and accurately across diverse populations. These brain models compare

Writer: Dr. Ruiyang Ge @ University of British Columbia The ENIGMA Lifespan Working Group is excited to share their latest work in estimating the biological age of the brain using structural neuroimaging data: "Brain-age prediction: Systematic evaluation of site effects, and sample age range and size". This method, known as brain-age estimation, has proven to be a valuable tool in understanding brain development and aging, offering insights into various biologically and behav