r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Sep 09 '24

Neuroscience Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds. MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected after lockdowns, compared with 1.4 years for boys.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/09/covid-lockdowns-prematurely-aged-girls-brains-more-than-boys-study-finds
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u/UX-Ink Sep 15 '24

Yeah, like I said a few times already, I there's just correlation observed. I already addressed the aspect of causation in my earlier comment.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 Sep 15 '24

Yep and like I said a few times, my issue was never with anything you've repeated here. Your observations and conclusions are totally in line with my own.

It was with OC's claim that Covid is actively causing new ADHD cases in people who did not have symptoms in childhood I was hoping they'd come back and address.

One of the core diagnostic criteria is that you displayed or struggled with these symptoms as a child. Maybe OC is right the criteria are wrong, but until there's evidence for that it's just speculation at best and misinformation at worst.