Even without hunting Covid, the epidemic may be quietly aged your mind

What does it mean to grow up, not only for years, but in terms of brain health? Can tension, isolation and global turmoil are left their mark on people’s minds?

The results of this new study, which is published in Nature Communications, He showed that the people who lived through the Covid-19 pandemic showed signs of brain aging faster over time than those who were fully wiped before that. The most obvious changes were in older individuals, in men, and in people of more deprived backgrounds.

Only participants who had COVID-19 have shown a decrease in some cognitive abilities, such as mental flexibility and speed of treatment. This may indicate that the effect of the aging of the brain in the epidemic, on its own (without infection) may not cause symptoms. Also, the authors highlight that the aging of the monitored brain may be the opposite.

The study was led by a team of experts from the University’s College of Medicine, and was supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Center and Demistifi of the MRC.

“What surprised me more is that even people who did not have coffee showed great increases in the rates of brain aging. It really shows the extent of the epidemic himself, everything from isolation to uncertainty, they have affected the health of the brain.”

The research team considered longitudinal brain scanning processes of approximately 1,000 healthy adults, which were taken as part of the study of the biological bank in the UK. Some participants had examinations before and after the epidemic. Others, just before. Using advanced photography and machine learning, the researchers estimated the “brain of the brain” for every person – how old his brain was compared to their actual age.

The brain era model has been developed using brain tests from more than 15,000 healthy people, without accompanying diseases, allowing researchers to build an accurate form of an estimate of the age of the brain.

“This study reminds us that brain health is formed not only through the disease, but through our daily environment,” said Dorothy Ayer, a professor of neurotransmitter and chief authors in the study. “The epidemic put pressure on the lives of people, especially those who are already facing a defect. We cannot yet test whether the changes we saw will be reflected, but it is definitely possible, and this is an encouraging idea.”

Stamatios Sotiropoulos, a professor of arithmetic nervous imaging, added: “The longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging data that was obtained before and after the epidemic of the UK’s biological bank gave us a rare window to monitor how major life events could affect the brain.”