{"id":80108,"date":"2022-04-14T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80108"},"modified":"2022-04-14T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:26:25","slug":"largest-ever-collection-of-brain-maps-charts-how-the-brain-changes-over-a-lifetime-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/14\/largest-ever-collection-of-brain-maps-charts-how-the-brain-changes-over-a-lifetime-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest-Ever Collection of Brain Maps Charts How the Brain Changes Over a Lifetime [Fan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/04\/12\/the-largest-ever-collection-of-brain-maps-charts-how-the-brain-changes-over-a-lifetime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Largest-Ever Collection of Brain Maps Charts How the Brain Changes Over a Lifetime<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from singularityhub.com by Shelly Fan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our brains are unique snowflakes that change shape throughout our lives. Yet buried underneath individual differences is a common throughline, with the brain growing rapidly during childhood then slowly declining with age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But that\u2019s just a crude sketch of an average brain\u2019s lifetime. What are we missing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A team of international scientists just gave us the first answers with a remarkable project called BrainChart. In a tour de force\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04554-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study published last week in\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0they combined almost 125,000 brain scans covering the entire human lifespan, from before birth to death. The youngest sample was 15 weeks after conception; the oldest, a centenarian.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Even at this massive scale, the charts are just the first edition. The entire work is open sourced (<a href=\"https:\/\/brainchart.shinyapps.io\/brainchart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can check it out here<\/a>), published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ucam-department-of-psychiatry\/Lifespan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with tools<\/a>\u00a0that allow other contributors to match up their brain scan data to the charts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cYou could imagine them being used to help evaluate patients screened for conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s, for example, allowing doctors to spot signs of neurodegeneration by comparing how rapidly a patient\u2019s brain volume has changed compared to their peers,\u201d said Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Largest-Ever Collection of Brain Maps Charts How the Brain Changes Over a Lifetime &#8212; from singularityhub.com by Shelly Fan Excerpts: Our brains are unique snowflakes that change shape throughout our lives. Yet buried underneath individual differences is a common throughline, with the brain growing rapidly during childhood then slowly declining with age. 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