A domestic research team has presented the average size of the brain among elderly South Koreans.
 
Kim Ki-woong, a psychiatry professor at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, said Thursday that the size was measured through the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging assessments on 96 elderly South Koreans aged 60 or older with no brain illnesses.
 
According to the study, elderly South Koreans’ brains are 13-point-six centimeters in width on average, two millimeters wider than those of their Western counterparts.
 
The length from the top to the chin measured 12-point-four centimeters for South Korean seniors, nine millimeters longer than Western elderly people.

Elderly Westerners have a brain that is 17-point-three centimeters from the front to the back, three millimeters longer than their South Korean counterparts.
 
The research team said that Asians’ brains are different from those of Westerners in size and shape, due to environmental or genetic factors. But the standard in international cerebral disease research is the brains of French women who are 60 years old on average.