Associations between education attainment and brain‐predicted age difference: a population‐based study
Huijie Huang, Jiao Wang, Jun Ma, Weili Xu · 2025
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Huijie Huang, Jiao Wang, Jun Ma, and Weili Xu published a study in 2025 on schooling and the age of the brain. Scans can estimate a brain's age, and a brain that looks older than its years signals trouble ahead. The team asked whether people with more education keep brains that look younger, and whether genes change that link.
More than thirty-two thousand adults had brain scans about nine years after their schooling was recorded. Those with the most schooling had brains that looked younger than their age. The gap was widest in people with both high schooling and low genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. Schooling seems to leave a mark that scans can still read decades later.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huijie Huang, Jiao Wang, Jun Ma, Weili Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |