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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...