University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

Doctors use all sorts of tools to determine if a person is fit and developing normally -- charts tracking height and weight for growing children, tables showing healthy blood pressure and cholesterol ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Want to know if your child's height and weight are on track? Check the growth chart that the doctor gives you after each yearly checkup. Want to know if your child's brain is on ...

In early childhood, growth charts are used to monitor the height, weight and head circumference, serving as a screening tool to identify physical development. During this window of time, between early ...

Scientists have created a new collection of month-by-month infant brain atlas (IBA) that capture fine details of the early developing brain across both space and time. Human brain atlases can be used ...

To create a series of charts tracking average brain development over the course of a lifetime, the researchers first needed to amass a huge dataset. Because fMRI brain imaging is a costly and ...

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 ...

IF A DOCTOR wants to know how well a child is growing, she can turn to clinically validated charts that lay out precisely how that child compares to the norm for their age and sex. Not only can the ...