Mapping Healthy Aging: How India Is Building Its First Reference Standard
In a room with a Siemens Magnetom Lumina scanner, a person lies motionless for 45 minutes while the magnetic field draws a map of their brain. Nearby, test tubes for blood, scissors for a lock of hair, and a laptop with memory tests wait their turn. This is how the assembly of the first atlas of healthy aging for an entire country begins in Hyderabad.