{"id":1499,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/covid-accelerated-ageing-in-teenage-brains\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","slug":"covid-accelerated-ageing-in-teenage-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/covid-accelerated-ageing-in-teenage-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid accelerated ageing in teenage brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-10 14:09:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Teenage brains aged rapidly during the coronavirus lockdown.<BR><br \/>\nSocial isolation and the restrictions imposed by health measures during the global crisis have been found to have accelerated the process of cortical thinking &#8211; a natural development that occurs with age and is hastened by stress.<BR><br \/>\nData shows that girls were more severely affected, as their brains aged by 4.2 years over the course of the pandemic compared to 1.4 years for boys.<BR><br \/>\nScientists at the University of Washington think that female brains were impacted more as they place a higher value on social interactions compared to males.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Patricia Kuhl, senior author of the study, said: &#8220;Teenagers really are walking a tightrope, trying to get their lives together.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re under tremendous pressure. Then a global pandemic strikes and their normal channels of stress release are gone. Those release outlets aren&#8217;t there anymore, but the social criticisms and pressure remain because of social media.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;What the pandemic really seems to have done is to isolate girls. All teenagers got isolated, but girls suffered more. It affected their brains much more dramatically.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-10 14:09:18 Teenage brains aged rapidly during the coronavirus lockdown. Social isolation and the restrictions imposed by health measures during the global crisis have been found to have accelerated the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}