Living through the COVID pandemic aged your brain by about five and a half extra months. This, according to new research. It’s a pretty scary headline, but what does “brain age” even mean, how do you measure it, and what risks does a five-and-a-half month older brain have to face? [Medscape]

We’re going to use what’s left of our brains to dig through the data this week. Stay tuned.

The study generating those scary headlines is “Accelerated Brain Ageing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, from Ali-Reza Mohammadi-Nejad and colleagues, appearing in Nature Communications. 

Full article here> 

Another article that may be of interest to you: WHO Eyes Emerging COVID-19 Variant>

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