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Researchers used advanced imaging to chart individuals' brain maturity based on the functional connections between brain regions. The finding raises the possibility that brain scanning data may one day be used to monitor psychiatric and developmental disorders.
Charting Brain Maturity
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"Pediatricians regularly plot where their patients are in terms of height, weight and other measures, and then match these up to standardized curves that track typical developmental pathways," Schlaggar says. "When the patient deviates too strongly from the standardized ranges or veers suddenly from one developmental path to another, the physician knows there's a need to start asking why." Brain scanning data may one day provide similar guidance for monitoring and treating psychiatric and developmental disorders.
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