brain-PAD

Aliases: brain-predicted age difference brain age gap

Systems Analogy

The difference between how many miles a car has driven and the actual wear-and-tear condition of its engine components.

Brain-predicted age difference; the gap between an individual's chronological age and their estimated biological brain age derived from structural MRI scans.

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Scientific Sources & Verbatim Definitions

Empirical StudyFranke K, et al. Estimation of the individual brain age gap: a review. Front Aging Neurosci. 2019;11:282. ↗ (Page 2)
"The brain-predicted age difference (brain-PAD) represents a biomarker of biological brain aging."