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WORLD-FIRST STUDY CHARTS HOW OUR BRAINS DECLINE AS WE AGE

The first comprehensive study of how the human brain changes over a lifetime could help doctors to monitor and diagnose neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s.

The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Philadelphia, has produced a unique set of charts based on brain scans that range from those of a 15-week-old foetus all the way up to a 100-year-old adult.

So far,

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