Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research.

Trends Cogn Sci

Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75080, USA.

Published: February 2024

An absence of population-representative participant samples has limited research in healthy brain aging. We highlight examples of what can be gained by enrolling more diverse participant cohorts, and propose recommendations for specific reforms, both in terms of how researchers accomplish this goal and how institutions support and benchmark these efforts.

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