HCP Lifespan image on cover of Science

Author: Jenn Elam

Published: Oct 31, 2014

Study: HCP Young Adult

A myelin map brain surface image from a 65-75 year old healthy HCP Lifespan subject is featured on the October 31, 2014 Aging Brain special issue of Science.

Myelin mapping is being used in HCP provide useful markers between individuals for functionally distinct regions of the cerebral cortex, which can vary in size and location between individuals. One of the questions being asked in the HCP Lifespan pilot project is whether maps of myelin content change over the lifespan and how those changes might affect the function over the brain in healthy aging.

The image was produced in Connectome Workbench from a subject scanned in Lifespan Phase 1a who was recruited as a healthy control through the Knight Alzheimers Disease Research Center at Washington University.