Accelerating research on biological aging and mental health: Current challenges and future directions

LKM Han, JE Verhoeven, AR Tyrka… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aging is associated with complex biological changes that can be accelerated, slowed, or
even temporarily reversed by biological and non-biological factors. This article focuses on …

Gray matter age prediction as a biomarker for risk of dementia

J Wang, MJ Knol, A Tiulpin, F Dubost… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The gap between predicted brain age using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and
chronological age may serve as a biomarker for early-stage neurodegeneration. However …

Multimodal imaging improves brain age prediction and reveals distinct abnormalities in patients with psychiatric and neurological disorders

J Rokicki, T Wolfers, W Nordhøy, N Tesli… - Human brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The deviation between chronological age and age predicted using brain MRI is a putative
marker of overall brain health. Age prediction based on structural MRI data shows high …

Population-based neuroimaging reveals traces of childbirth in the maternal brain

AMG de Lange, T Kaufmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Maternal brain adaptations have been found across pregnancy and postpartum, but little is
known about the long-term effects of parity on the maternal brain. Using neuroimaging and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive gene-centric pleiotropic association analysis for 14 psychiatric disorders with GWAS summary statistics

H Lu, J Qiao, Z Shao, T Wang, S Huang, P Zeng - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed the
polygenic nature of psychiatric disorders and discovered a few of single-nucleotide …

Brain-predicted age difference score is related to specific cognitive functions: a multi-site replication analysis

R Boyle, L Jollans, LM Rueda-Delgado, R Rizzo… - Brain imaging and …, 2021 - Springer
Brain-predicted age difference scores are calculated by subtracting chronological age from
'brain'age, which is estimated using neuroimaging data. Positive scores reflect accelerated …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-sectional and longitudinal MRI brain scans reveal accelerated brain aging in multiple sclerosis

EA Høgestøl, T Kaufmann, GO Nygaard… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. By
combining longitudinal MRI-based brain morphometry and brain age estimation using …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing distinct patterns of cognitive aging using tissue-specific brain age prediction based on diffusion tensor imaging and brain morphometry

G Richard, K Kolskår, AM Sanders, T Kaufmann… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Multimodal imaging enables sensitive measures of the architecture and integrity of the
human brain, but the high-dimensional nature of advanced brain imaging features poses …

[HTML][HTML] Ensemble learning of convolutional neural network, support vector machine, and best linear unbiased predictor for brain age prediction: Aramis contribution to …

B Couvy-Duchesne, J Faouzi, B Martin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We ranked third in the Predictive Analytics Competition (PAC) 2019 challenge by achieving
a mean absolute error (MAE) of 3.33 years in predicting age from T1-weighted MRI brain …

Anatomical context improves deep learning on the brain age estimation task

C Bermudez, AJ Plassard, S Chaganti, Y Huo… - Magnetic Resonance …, 2019 - Elsevier
Deep learning has shown remarkable improvements in the analysis of medical images
without the need for engineered features. In this work, we hypothesize that deep learning is …