brain-PAD
Type: concept Aliases: brain-predicted age differencebrain age gap
- Systems Analogy The difference between your actual birthday age and how youthful and sharp your brain scans look.
- Formal Definition Brain-predicted age difference; the gap between an individual's chronological age and their estimated biological brain age derived from structural MRI scans.
Mentioned In
- Lifestyle PracticesExercise-Induced Brain Age Reversal (Brain-PAD)
Scientific Sources & Literature Citations
- [1] Empirical Study Franke K, et al. Estimation of the individual brain age gap: a review. Front Aging Neurosci. 2019;11:282. ↗
"The brain-predicted age difference (brain-PAD) represents a biomarker of biological brain aging."