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Mental Health and Brain Health

Pandemic Stress Shock: “Mind-Blowing Brain Shrinkage Without Illness” Found In Healthy Adults Raises Alarming Questions For Mental Health Worldwide

Pandemic Stress Shock: “Mind-Blowing Brain Shrinkage Without Illness” Found In Healthy Adults Raises Alarming Questions For Mental Health Worldwide
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IN A NUTSHELL
  • 🧠 The pandemic has accelerated brain aging even in those who never contracted COVID-19.
  • 🔬 Researchers observed significant changes in gray and white matter volumes, indicators of brain aging.
  • 📊 The study involved over 15,000 participants and
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Mental Health and Brain Health

Even without catching COVID, the pandemic may have quietly aged your brain

Even without catching COVID, the pandemic may have quietly aged your brain
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A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that the Covid-19 pandemic may have accelerated people’s brain health, even if they were never infected with the virus.

What does it mean to grow older, not

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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
17 min read

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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