HYDERABAD – Indian nationals have smaller size brains than the rest of theWorld, reveals new Research study.
A research conducted by the International Institute of InformationTechnology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has revealed that the Indian brain onaverage is smaller in height, width and volume when compared to western andother eastern populations, reported The Times of India.
The researchers created the first Indian Brain Atlas and revealed that theIndian brain is smaller compared to others – helping in early diagnosis ofbrain related illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s.
The Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) template used as the standard tostudy illnesses, was created using Caucasian brains. Researchers said thatthis template is not ideal to analyse brain differentiation in the Indianpopulation.——————————
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“As Indian brains are smaller in size when compared to MNI, the differencein scans can look alarming and lead to misdiagnosis,” said a researcher,adding that the first-ever atlas created for the Indian brain involved 50individuals.
She also noted that the differences are found even at the structural level,such as in the volume of the hippocampus.
