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The brains of U.S. teens have physically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2: A new study suggested that pandemic-related stressors have physically aged brains of adolescents’, according to a study. The new findings indicate that the neurological and mental health effects of the pandemic on adolescents may have been even worse, the study said. They have been published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. In 2020 alone, according to the study by Stanford University, US, reports of anxiety and depression in adults rose by more than 25 percent […]

If kids who experienced the pandemic show accelerated development in their brains, scientists will have to account for that abnormal rate of growth in any future research involving this generation, said the study. 

The brains of U.S. teens have physically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says.

The pandemic-related stress has physically altered adolescents' brains, making their brain structures appear several years older than the brains of comparable peers before the pandemic, a new study has revealed.