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Nearly 12 months in, and heavy is the head that bears lockdown. Coping during this period of national incarceration has been a mental battle and experts say the dramatic change to our lifestyles, coupled with unprecedented levels of stress, has aged our brains.
If you’ve been feeling more forgetful, unable to concentrate, and stumbling over the right words, you could be experiencing what’s being referred to as ‘lockdown brain’.
Absence of human contact has long been associated with a decline in cognitive function. In 1972, the French explorer and scientist Michel Siffre conducted what would become one of the longest self-isolation experiments in history, shutting himself off in a cave in Texas for six months and documenting the mental impact.
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Nearly 12 months in, and heavy is the head that bears lockdown. Coping during this period of national incarceration has been a mental battle – and experts say the dramatic change to our lifestyles, coupled with unprecedented levels of stress, has aged our brains.
If you’ve been feeling more forgetful, unable to concentrate, and stumbling over the right words, you could be experiencing what’s being referred to as ‘lockdown brain’.
How the pandemic has aged our brains and what we can do to fix it
15 Mar, 2021 08:30 PM
8 minutes to read
Being stuck at home in lockdown has had a negative impact on our mental health. Photo / Getty Images
Being stuck at home in lockdown has had a negative impact on our mental health. Photo / Getty Images
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Joe Shute
It s around a year since Covid lockdown restrictions were imposed across the world, and heavy is the head that bears lockdown. Coping during this period of national incarceration has been a mental battle – and experts say the dramatic change to our lifestyles, coupled with unprecedented levels of stress, has aged our brains.
I love the way millennials walk around town listening to their music on their branded headphones. They seem so utterly absorbed in it and happily shut off from their surroundings. I get the feeling they’re thinking ‘oh well, at least I have my music’. After all, “Music is the medicine of the mind,” American playwright John Logan once said. There has been quite a bit of research on music s power on the human psyche over the years and how it is intrinsically linked to our development. Why do we recognise certain songs at lightning speed? Why can a tear fall onto our cheeks during the first minute of a love song? We can barely grasp what happened to us in those split seconds, just that it felt mysterious and powerful at the same time. Why can a Madonna or Bon Jovi song make a middle-aged person leap onto the dancefloor? Why do those nostalgic feelings come flooding back when we rediscover a mix tape carefully compiled for us by an ex tapping into feelings that should b