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Quick brackdrop. this was ongoing before the pandemic. they were looking at adolescent brains before the pandemic scanning these kids every couple years when the pandemic happened they continued the study. so now they have scans before the pandemic and then at least a year into the pandemic. and let me show you quickly, if i can, a few things that really jumped out in this study. one is there was sort of a thinning of the cortex, this area of the brain, think of that as like the bark on a tree, the outermost layers. this area often responsible for executive reasoning and judgment, those areas ...

Well. i want to show you what some of the changes were. what was happening is there was a study that was ongoing even before the pandemic, they were imaging adolescent brains from time to time. then when the pandemic happens, they continued the study. they had brains images before the pandemic and in the pandemic. what they saw was pretty stunning. if you look at the brain overall the cortex, which is sort of the bark-like outer layer of the brain, that was greatly thinned in these children who in the first year of the pandemic. so a thinning of this area. that's typically associated with exec...

Have had. i have three teenagers at home. we have lived with this. the symptoms of anxiety and depression going up even before the pandemic and accelerated significantly. this is the study that looked at the first year of the pandemic. they found there were definitive changes in the brain but the study was going on even before the pandemic started. they were scanning adolescent brains every couple years and when the pandemic happened they continued the study. before the pandemic, in the pandemic, what happened? they found that the cortex which is the outer layer of the brain thinned. got thinn...

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