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Late Chronotype MRI Signal Vanishes After Strict Correction

Stylized illustration of an early-morning sky and a late-night sky meeting over a brain in profile, representing the structural neuroimaging question about chronotype in healthy young adults.

Popular coverage of chronotype neuroimaging usually claims that late chronotypes (evening types, often called “night owls”) show smaller cortical regions and faster brain aging than early chronotypes (morning types). A 2026 multimodal structural MRI analysis from Beheshti and Elkana ran the comparison in 136 healthy young adults using strict whole-brain correction, and the group differences …

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