DunedinPACNI Estimates the Longitudinal Pace of Aging From a Single Brain Image to Track Health and Disease

DunedinPACNI estimates the longitudinal Pace of Aging from a single brain image to track health and disease

To understand how aging affects functional decline and increases disease risk, it is necessary to develop measures of how fast a person is aging. Using data from the Dunedin Study, we introduce an accurate and reliable measure for the rate of longitudinal aging derived from cross-sectional brain magnetic resonance imaging, that is, the Dunedin Pace of Aging Calculated from NeuroImaging (DunedinPACNI). Exporting this measure to the Alzheimer’s Di…

Single Brain MRI Reveals Accelerated Aging, Dementia Risk

A novel MRI-based ‘aging’ clock may offer a simple way to identify patients whose biological age is outpacing their chronological age, allowing for early intervention. Medscape Medical News