Covid lockdown accelerates brain thinning
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•Covid lockdown sped up ageing in teenage brains, study finds
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Study in 2018 recruited 160 young people between nine and 17 years old and conducted scans to analyse the composition of their brain.
Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle created a model from the 2018 scans to calculate the level of cortical thinning that would happen naturally if the pandemic did not occur.
They then compared these projections to the real scans taken in 2021 to determine any change.
Girls were harder hit by the lockdowns than boys and found it more stressful because they place a higher value on social interactions.
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