Research Team Creates Set of Multi-Dimensional Brain Measurements That Can Accurately Assess Child’s Age

A national team of researchers — led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine investigators — has developed a multidimensional set of brain measurements that, when taken together, can accurately assess a child’s age with 92 percent accuracy.

“We have uncovered a ‘developmental clock’ within the brain — a biological signature of maturation that captures age differences quite well regardless of other kinds of differences that exist across individuals,” says first author Timothy T. Brown, PhD, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist in the Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine. For more information, click here to read the full release.