An experimental approach to disentangle neurodevelopmental and current factors of influence on brain and cognition: an intervention twin study
Kristine B Walhovd, Sneve H Markus, Øystein Sørensen, Anne Cecilie Sjøli Bråthen, Emilie Sogn Falch, Pablo F Garrido, Jonas Kransberg, Maksim Slivka, José‐Luis Alatorre‐Warren, Knut Overbye, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Anders M Fjell · 2025
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Kristine Walhovd and a large team of co-authors present this 2025 twin study on how early life and genes shape the brain across the lifespan. The project, named Set-to-change, asks whether birth conditions and genes steer how brains and thinking change, and how well training can still reshape them. Twins offer a clean way to part those threads.
About 220 adult twins, aged sixteen to seventy-nine, took part. Some were identical and some not, and their birth weights differed to varied degrees. Half trained for ten weeks in a walking virtual reality navigation task, with brain scans and thinking tests before and after. Early reads hint that training moves the memory center's size. The authors set out the design as a tool for parting what is set early from what stays open to change.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kristine B Walhovd, Sneve H Markus, Øystein Sørensen, Anne Cecilie Sjøli Bråthen, Emilie Sogn Falch, Pablo F Garrido, Jonas Kransberg, Maksim Slivka, José‐Luis Alatorre‐Warren, Knut Overbye, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Anders M Fjell |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |