Girls’ brains aged at an ‘accelerated’ rate during the pandemic, study finds

(NEXSTAR) – A new study comparing the brains of children before and after COVID-19 found that adolescent girls’ brains had aged faster than expected during the social isolation and lockdowns brought on by the pandemic. University of Washington researchers behind the study – published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brain structure of 160 subjects ranging in age from 9 to 17. “We think of the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis,” said Patricia Kuhl, senior author...