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Teen brains need more sleep than adults. Try to guide your teen toward good sleep habits. Thus, the resulting ROI contained only brain pixels. Then, the pixel intensities of the IR image were displayed in histogram form, and the gray matter histogram peak was eliminated. The gray matter area was obtained by subtracting the white matter area of each lobe from the total lobe area.
A contiguous 7-slice volume centered on the anterior commissure was used for data quantification. Volumes were computed by summing the products of each cross-sectional area with the slice thickness.
Test-retest reliabilities for the ROI were good; the intraclass reliability coefficients r xx were 0. Because gray matter volume is a calculated value based on total and white matter volume, reliability coefficients were not calculated for this brain variable. Linear and nonlinear relationships between age and brain structural volumes were examined with Pearson product moment correlation analyses and hierarchical polynomial regression analyses.
Height was statistically controlled as a partial variable and introduced into all the analyses to adjust for variations in body size on the brain and its regions and control for the "secular effect" the progressive trend toward increased body height and brain weight in the 20th century. To compare whether the peak of the quadratic age regression curves differed between 2 regions, a bootstrap replication analysis was employed.
These results are consistent with prior reports on brain volume changes with normal aging. All the analyses were repeated, controlling for education and ethnicity to ensure that the observed changes in brain tissue matter were not better accounted for by other demographic characteristics, but adjusting for these 2 potential confounding variables did not meaningfully alter any of the results. The age at which the white matter tissue reaches maximum volume, derived from the quadratic curves, was calculated to be Since this is the first report, to our knowledge, to demonstrate gross increases in white matter volume after age 20 years, secondary follow-up analyses were conducted to investigate the age-related brain tissue changes in younger adults.
This sample consisted of the youngest 52 subjects younger than the age at which maximum white matter volumes are reached. The most striking observation of the current study is the quadratic age-related pattern of white matter volume changes Figure 2.
Contrary to previously published imaging studies reporting static white matter volume after adolescence, 3 , 8 - 13 the data suggest that white matter volumes of frontal and temporal lobes continue to increase into the fifth decade and decline thereafter.
The rate and pattern of white matter change seems to be regionally specific as it reaches peak volume at about age 44 years in the frontal lobes and age 47 years in the temporal lobes. The regionally specific pattern of white matter development in adulthood is similar in temporal order and magnitude to the regionally specific pattern of gray matter volume expansion and contraction occurring in childhood and adolescence.
Several limitations of our study must be acknowledged prior to further interpretation. First, only data from men were presented, and the educational attainment of the participants exceeds usual norms; therefore, the results cannot be generalized to women or less-educated groups. Second, the sample of this cross-sectional study was not derived using random selection from the normative population; therefore, interpretation of the observed age-related differences between age group means as "changes" or "increases" must be made with caution.
Third, the brain variables were analyzed without examining for left-right asymmetry. Finally, the volume measures were obtained on only a sample of the total frontal and temporal lobes and cannot be generalized to the entire brain. However, the specificity of the regions quantified maximizes the inclusion of the frontal and temporal neurocortical zones regions Yakovlev and Lecours 5 [p49] referred to as the supralimbic and paralimbic zones involved in continued maturation into middle age and excludes areas internal capsule and subcortical gray matter that are postulated to complete the myelination cycle by the third decade.
The cortex undergoes profound changes with aging, consisting primarily of shrinkage of large neurons and increase in the proportion of small neurons, 14 - 16 visualized in this and other studies 3 , 8 - 13 as a reduction in the volume of cortical gray matter Figure 3. Postmortem studies have shown that associative neocortex of the human frontal and temporal cortices continues to develop as judged by continued myelination of the white matter of these regions up to the fifth decade and beyond, 5 , 27 , 28 suggesting that after this age, degenerative processes may cancel out any myelination-related white matter volume increase on MRI.
The present in vivo evidence of increasing white matter volume with age in the frontal and temporal lobes supports the concept of continued brain maturation into the fifth decade.
The development of better emotional regulation, response inhibition, and possibly the concept of wisdom commonly associated with the mid- and late-life periods 30 , 31 may be manifestations of this quantifiable brain maturation process. This interpretation suggests that the brain could experience neurodevelopmental arrest, even in adulthood, if pathological states eg, brain trauma, schizophrenia, severe stress, substance abuse alter the normal age-related pattern of structural changes.
Finally, the data suggest that during the life span, the brain is in a constant state of change roughly defined as periods of development and maturation followed by degeneration and that, biologically speaking, the societal concept of a stable or unchanging adult brain may not be valid. Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience.
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