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The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown - ScienceAlert

The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown - ScienceAlert

The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown - ScienceAlert
Dec 06, 2022 46 secs

Even if you've left adolescence far behind, you might remember that it can be a tumultuous time in terms of thoughts and feelings, and there's a lot of reorganizing that goes on in the brain – even without a global pandemic and the associated lockdowns.

"We already know from global research that the pandemic has adversely affected mental health in youth, but we didn't know what, if anything, it was doing physically to their brains," says psychologist Ian Gotlib, Director of the Stanford Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology (SNAP) Laboratory in California.

What this study can't tell us is whether these changes are going to be permanent, or whether there are further mental health problems that will arise from the accelerated changes in these key brain structures.

The team plans to continue tracking the same group of people as they get older, looking out for further changes in brain structure and any mental health complications that might develop.

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