New Study Finds Brains Of Teens Who Lived Through The Pandemic Aged Faster

Romper – Jamie Kenney

Any parent could anecdotally tell you that their children had a rough time during various lockdowns, illnesses, and interrupted education experience that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic. But a new study from Stanford University suggests that we can actually see those harms on an anatomical level. MRIs from the brains of teens who lived through the pandemic appear to have aged faster than those of their pre-pandemic peers.

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