Accelerated brain aging

Biomarker

3 papers3 findings

  • Humans2
  • In silico1

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Major depressive disorder

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Major depressive disorder increases accelerated brain aging in humans (67 gray matter regions).

    “revealing accelerated aging in 66 gray matter regions in BD and 67 in MDD”

    Humansin major depressive disordergray matter

    Identifying key brain pathology in bipolar and unipolar depression using a region-specific brain aging trajectories approach: Insights from the Taiwan Aging and Mental Illness Cohort

    Psychological medicineAug 29, 2025

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Bipolar disorder

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Bipolar disorder increases accelerated brain aging in humans (66 gray matter regions).

    “revealing accelerated aging in 66 gray matter regions in BD and 67 in MDD”

    Humansin bipolar disordergray matter

    Identifying key brain pathology in bipolar and unipolar depression using a region-specific brain aging trajectories approach: Insights from the Taiwan Aging and Mental Illness Cohort

    Psychological medicineAug 29, 2025

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Associations

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P-wave duration

downin humans1

1 study
  1. P-wave duration is associated with accelerated brain aging in humans.

    “PWD is inversely associated with accelerated brain aging in the sensorimotor, frontoparietal, ventral attention, and dorsal attention networks”

    Humansabsence of overt cardiac diseases

    Subclinical variations on ECG and their associations with structural brain aging networks

    medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciencesMar 19, 2024Preprint

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Funding

2 grants since 2021

National Institute on AgingUS$500kNational Institute of Mental HealthUS$1.2m

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Psychological Medicine

Brain age estimates were higher across six disorders

The gap between scan-estimated and actual age exceeded age-matched controls by 7.64 years in schizophrenia and 7.61 years in frontotemporal dementia.The gap between scan-estimated and actual age exceeded age-matched controls by 7.64 years in schizophrenia and 7.61 years in frontotemporal dementia.

Case-control study of 25,425 peopleBiomarkers