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We might become less sociable as we age as brain scans of adults across the lifespan show disruption of brain connectivity, suggesting impairments in our ability to form and maintain relationships

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Intrinsic functional connectivity brain networks mediate effect of age on sociability

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Age-related brain connectivity patterns sorted into (A) brainnetome atlas regions and (B) Yeo’s 7 networks. For the purpose of illustrating the region-wise and network-wise rsFC patterns, the NBS thresholded edges’ regression coefficients are averaged across their respective regions and networks.

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Credit: Dan et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

We might become less sociable as we age as brain scans of adults across the lifespan show disruption of brain connectivity, suggesting impairments in our ability to form and maintain relationships 

Article URL: https://plos.io/3S1CiE6

Article title: Intrinsic functional connectivity brain networks mediate effect of age on sociability

Author countries: Singapore

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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