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Teens’ Brains Aged Faster During the First Year of the Pandemic, Study Says

The brains of U.S. teens have physically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The study, published last week in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, is one of the first to look at the physical changes in the brain brought by that the stress and anxiety. The researchers compared the MRI scans of 128 children. Half the scans were taken before the pandemic and the other half at the end of 2020. They found that the children who had lived through the first year of the pandemic had brain ages that were older than their chronological age. The young study participants also reported more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. Read more from CNN here.