Brain plasticity as a neurobiological reflection of individuality is difficult to capture in animal
models. Inspired by behavioral-genetic investigations of human monozygotic twins reared …

Assessing and analysing individual differences in change over time is of central scientific
importance to developmental neuroscience. However, the literature is based largely on cross-…

… in this article is available (Brandmaier, 2012) in R, based on the OpenMx package for SEM.
… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Andreas M. Brandmaier, …

Ωnyx is a free software environment for creating and estimating structural equation models (SEM).
It provides a graphical user interface that facilitates an intuitive creation of models, and …

With advancing age, healthy adults typically exhibit decreases in performance across many
different cognitive abilities such as memory, processing speed, spatial ability, and abstract …

Brain age is a widely used index for quantifying individuals’ brain health as deviation from a
normative brain aging trajectory. Higher-than-expected brain age is thought partially to …

Aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are associated with progressive brain disorganization.
Although structural asymmetry is an organizing feature of the cerebral cortex it is unknown …

Education has been related to various advantageous lifetime outcomes. Here, using
longitudinal structural MRI data (4,422 observations), we tested the influential hypothesis that …

… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Andreas M. Brandmaier,
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, …

Theories of adult cognitive development classically distinguish between fluid abilities, which
require effortful processing at the time of assessment, and crystallized abilities, which …