How the pandemic aged teen brains - Axios
Between the lines: School closures and separation from peers during the pandemic created a form of toxic stress for teenagers, said John Richardson-Lauve, mental health director at ChildSavers, a nonprofit focused on trauma-informed therapy for children in low-income areas.Of note: Multiple factors influence how youths with mental health challenges handle adulthood, said Randy Auerbach, a neuroscience professor at Columbia University who studies depression and suicide in adolescents.What's next: Gotlib said researchers are looking to compare brain scans of teenagers who were infected with COVID to those who weren’t to identify changes