Use of brain age models frequently lead to wrong conclusions - unfortunately it is not easy to fix. Fortunately, there are better alternatives. @edvardg.bsky.social @fmrib-steve.bsky.social @didacvp.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social @k.b.walhovd www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Brain age models - machine-learning predictions of chronological age from brain imaging - are widely interpreted as markers of accelerated brain aging. Here we show that this interpretation cannot be ...