Researchers at the University of Washington discovered that the age-related thinning of the cortex in adolescent brains accelerated during the lockdown periods, with a more pronounced effect observed in females compared to males. This thinning is crucial for brain maturation and coincides with a critical period of plasticity in the frontal brain region, vital for cognitive and social development.
data, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle showed that the usual, age-related thinning of the cortex – the folded surface – of the adolescent brain accelerated after the lockdowns and the effect was greater in the female brain than the male. Science shows the critical importance of adolescence for the brain. The notoriously different behaviour of teenagers is due to a large degree to the immaturity of their brain cortex.
On the one hand, biological ageing is the progressive decline in the function of the body's cells, tissues and systems. On the other, development is the process by which we reach maturity. So it seems there is an unpalatable and much more serious conclusion: the reported accelerated maturation – though serious enough – is not a one-off detriment. It may well set a trajectory of adverse brain ageing way beyond adolescence.
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