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Restriction spectrum imaging characterizes brain tissue microstructural health via water diffusion, where the restricted normalized isotropic (RNI) compartment assesses neuronal and glial cellularity, which may reflect neuroinflammation, synaptic pruning, or both.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To identify associations among RNI scaling factor values, normal neurodevelopment, and weight gain during early adolescence.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>This cohort study used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, a 10-year, ongoing, multisite longitudinal cohort study conducted among youths aged 9 to 20 years. The analyses focused on data from baseline (collected in 2016-2018) and the 2-year follow-up (collected in 2018-2020). Participants who initially had healthy weight (body mass index [BMI] percentile &amp;lt;85th) at age 9 to 10 years were eligible for this study. Data analysis was performed between March 2024 and March 2025.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine bidirectional associations among RNI, age, and BMI (a proxy for weight gain) across 16 appetite-controlling brain regions. First, analysis was performed among youths with healthy-weight, weight-stable (HW-WS) status, stratified by sex. Second, an evaluation was conducted to determine how these associations changed among all youths (eg, conversion to healthy-weight, non\u2013weight-stable [HW-NS] status).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>At baseline, data were available for 3110 youths (mean [SD] baseline age, 119.2 [7.5] months); at year 2, only 1855 youths had complete data. Of these 1855 youths, 1072 (592 males [55.2%]) had HW-WS and 773 (445 females [57.2%]) had HW-NS. Among youths with HW-WS, RNI values were associated with age but not BMI. 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