The stress of lockdowns, fear and social isolation appear to have left a mark on our brains. Experts say it may be possible to counteract the changes.
Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests.
Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, people’s brains showed signs of aging, including shrinkage, according to the report published in Nature Communications.
People who got infected with the virus also showed deficits in certain cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and mental flexibility.
How about folks that kinda liked it. Air was never as fresh as it was april 2020 and I liked the friendly waves from a ways a way.
Lock down was one of the best things for my mental health. My social battery had never been that charged before!
Is it just me, or was there a moment there when everyone was kind of enjoying it? Everybody picked a project, lots of people baked bread, lots of people did laundry while waiting for a meeting to start, said “Hey this is kinda nice” and then that couldn’t stand and REPUBLICANISM THE FUCK HAPPENED and they dispatched their sister fucking base to ruin everything?
its not just you.
I feel like I’ve aged more since people went back OUT in bigger and more chaotic numbers than before, like a hectic and hollow, mindless, intense buzzing where people seem to be out MORE while doing LESS, anything than be back home again, alone with their thoughts again…
There was a two year-long opportunity to teach oneself stillness and maybe even silence, and it seems too many people would rather yank their hair out in clumps than live through that again. Now instead they make more chaos than before.
I have never slept better every day, than I did during the lockdown.
None of us started drinking more during the pandemic, I swear.
People who got infected with the virus also showed deficits in certain cognitive abilities, such as processing speed and mental flexibility.
I’ve been saying it since I got COVID in 2022. I feel dumber.
It may have aged, but it didn’t mature!
Yeah. That’s a side effect of trauma.
Or maybe it was being called “essential”, watching everybody complain about having to play Animal Crossing all day.
