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.
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.