Brain Storm

“Scientists at the university’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) began the study using MRIs in 2018 to see how the brain structure of 160 teens from the Seattle area developed over time. The participants, a nearly equal number of boys and girls, ranged in age from 9 to 19 at the start of the study … they couldn’t do brain scan follow-ups until 2021. So they shifted the focus of the study to learn how the lockdowns had affected adolescent brain structure.” Teen brains ‘aged’ during Covid lockdowns, new research suggests. I’m not sure how accurate this study is, but I am sure we haven’t really dealt with the traumatic impact that the pandemic had on all of us. (Maybe that’s because 2020 still hasn’t really ended.)