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IIT Study Reveals Shocking Facts About Indian Brains

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   29 Oct 2019 8:52 AM GMT
IIT Study Reveals Shocking Facts About Indian Brains
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Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have created the first-ever Indian Brain Atlas The study has revealed that the Indian brain, on average, is smaller in height, width and volume when compared to Western and other eastern populations. This will help in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and other brain-related ailments.

Jayanthi Sivaswamy of the Centre for Visual Information Technology, who worked on the project, said that the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) template, which is used as the standard, was created using Caucasian brains. This, according to the researchers, is not ideal to analyze brain differences in the Indian population.

Jayanthi and her team are currently studying to understand the brain process that happens due to aging.

But according to most experts, it is around age 20-30, that the brain is to fully develop.

The scans collected were from the age group of 21-30 years, considering the baseline.