Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians. Richard Bethlehem and Jakob Seidlitz amassed more than 120,000 brain scans — the largest collection of its kind — to create the first comprehensive growth charts for […]
Optimising the health-care experiences of babies, children, and young people
New 2021 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines aim to optimise the healthcare experiences of these populations and ultimately improve their health outcomes and wellbeing. Children’s and young people’s views are too often missing from discussions about their care. This new guidance is particularly important because children and young people are […]
Consciousness: how the brain chemical ‘dopamine’ plays a key role
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that conscious brain activity seems to be linked to the brain’s “pleasure chemical”, dopamine. The fact that the neural mechanisms that underpin consciousness disorders are difficult to characterise makes these conditions hard to diagnose and treat. Brain-imaging has established that a […]
Brain charts for the human lifespan
A new interactive open-source software tool for charting human brain growth trends and milestones from <0 to 100 years The project led by Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre and the Brain Mapping Unit, has developed an interactive open-source software tool for normative and clinical brain reference chart visualisation and estimation. […]
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