For decades, growth charts have been used by pediatricians as reference tools. The charts allow health professionals to plot and measure a child’s height and weight from birth to young adulthood. The ...

Scientists have created the first reference charts for the human brain, mapping its growth from infancy to 100 years old. Now, they have to grapple with difficult ethical questions about how they ...

The findings, published through an open source website called Brain Chart, offer the first set of reference charts tracking structural brain changes over a human lifespan. And the scale of dataset has ...

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan – from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult – that show how our brains expand rapidly in ...

Richard Bethlehem received funding from the Autism Research Trust and the British Academy. All views expressed in this piece are his own. Jakob Seidlitz receives funding from the National Institutes ...

New research suggests that it might be possible to create a growth chart of brain networks that could identify early signs of attention difficulties and, potentially, attention deficit hyperactivity ...