Tag: COVID19

Mental Health and Brain Health

How COVID-19 Affects Cognitive Health Beyond Infection

How COVID-19 Affects Cognitive Health Beyond Infection
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The COVID-19 pandemic significantly accelerated brain aging in healthy adults, even among those who were never infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to findings from a new longitudinal neuroimaging study published in Nature Communications. Using UK

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Accelerated brain ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic
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A brain age prediction model16 (Fig. 1a) was trained on MRI scans collected pre-March 2020 from 15,334 healthy middle-aged and older UKBB19 participants (‘training set’: 8407 female; age [mean ± SD]: 62.6 ± 7.6 years). From the full

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