The COVID pandemic has heavily impacted teenage mental health, exacerbating rates of anxiety and depression. But a new study found it may have also aged their brains by a few years.
Dr. Vivek Murthy talks about the importance of asking for help and how we might be able to help each other.Research has shown the COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted teenage mental health, exacerbating rates of anxiety and depression. But a new study found it may have also aged their brains by a few years.people 15 to 18 years old before the pandemic and compared them with scans from their peers taken during the pandemic.
It’s unclear how these structural changes in the brain will impact teens and what it means for their future, experts say, but it serves as quantitative evidence supporting higher rates of mental health disorders among teens since pandemic. “Regrettably, the results of this new brain-based study are not surprising to folks in the clinical world,” said Dr. R. Meredith Elkins, program co-director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital. “Since March 2020, our clinic has seen an objective increase in the severity of anxiety disorder, OCD, co-occurring depression and risk-related behaviors associated with distress."
Children and teens were also more exposed to significant economic challenges, racial injustice and social unrest during isolation, Elkins said.
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