COVID pandemic restrictions had 'alarming' impact on teenagers’ brains, new study finds
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The pandemic’s negative effects on kids and teens included changes to young brains, a new study has found. A researcher and a neurosurgeon comment on the impact.
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"Once the pandemic was underway, we started to think about which brain measures would allow us to estimate what the pandemic lockdown had done to the brain," lead author Neva Corrigan, Ph.D., a research scientist at the University of Washington, said in a press release.