Pandemic Stress Physically Aged Teens’ Brains, A New Study Finds

A new study from Stanford University suggests that pandemic-related stressors have physically altered adolescents’ brains, making their brain structures appear several years older than the brains of comparable peers before the pandemic. The study (read below) was published on Dec. 1, 2022, in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.

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