Published in Molecular Psychiatry · View the paper (DOI)
Using neuroimaging techniques and multivariate statistical models, researchers found that people with older-than-chronological-age brains are more likely to experience deteriorating conditions and early death. Combining brain-predicted age with DNA-related epigenetic biomarkers improves mortality predictions.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- What the age of your brain says about you Springer · Apr 25, 2017 · first to report
- Predicting people's 'brain age' could help to spot who is at risk of early death Imperial College London · Apr 25, 2017