r/science 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_GratefulGrapefruite Sep 11 '24

Absolutely wild to do brain scans in 2021& 2022, compare those results to scans done in 2018, and attribute the changes to the effects of "lockdowns", which were neither universal (see "essential workers") nor long-lasting (maybe 4 months in 2020 where I'm from), rather than the virus itself.

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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.

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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.

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