The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers.
) brain scans of 81 children taken before the pandemic , and 82 children taken during the pandemic but after lockdown restrictions had eased .
What the scans showed was that the brain aging process had seemingly accelerated in the post-pandemic group. Lockdown periods of less than a year had resulted in the equivalent of three years of brain aging in the second selection of youngsters.
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