Age and Aging
Reports summarize age and aging study results from University of California, Department of Psychiatry
Published in Genetics and Environmental Health Week, March 3rd, 2010
Current study results from the report, 'Genetic and environmental influences on the size of specific brain regions in midlife: the VETSA MRI study,' have been published. "The impact of genetic and environmental factors on human brain structure is of great importance for understanding normative cognitive and brain aging as well as neuropsychiatric disorders. However, most studies of genetic and environmental influences on human brain structure have either focused on global measures or have had samples that were too small for reliable estimates," scientists in the United States report.
"Using the classical twin design, we assessed genetic, shared environmental, and...
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