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# Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds
- URL: https://werd.io/brains-of-post-pandemic-teens-show-signs-of-faster-ageing-study/
- Published: 2022-12-01T23:32:16.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-01T23:32:16.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“After matching 64 participants in each group for factors including age and sex, the team found that physical changes in the brain that occurred during adolescence – such as thinning of the cortex and growth of the hippocampus and the amygdala – were greater in the post-lockdown group than in the pre-pandemic group, suggesting such processes had sped up. In other words, their brains had aged faster.” [#Health](https://werd.io/tag/Health)

\[[Link](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/01/brains-of-post-pandemic-teens-show-signs-of-faster-ageing-study-finds)\]