Radiology Business January 9, 2023
Age really is just a number—and doctors agree. A new AI-powered tool using MRI to assess “biological brain age” seems to better reflect an individual’s cognitive condition than their actual “chronological brain age,” according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [1].
“People age at different rates, and so do tissue types in the body. We know this colloquially when we say, ‘So-and-so is 40, but looks 30. The same idea applies to the brain,” says Andrei Irimia, an assistant professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and corresponding author of the study, in a news release from USC. “The brain of a 40-year-old may look as ‘young’ as the brain of...
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