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Study: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents: Implications for Analyzing Longitudinal Data. Image Credit: Shan_shan / Shutterstock.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused rapid brain aging in adolescents

In a recent Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science study, Stanford University researchers are assessing how the stress and social disruption caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the neurodevelopment of young adults. Study: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and brain maturation in adolescents: implications for longitudinal data analysis. Image …

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5 new technologies could turn our world into a scary and real "device"

5 new technologies could turn our world into a scary and real “device”

The hit Amazon Prime television series “The Peripheral,” based on the novel of the same name by William Gibson, depicts an ominous planet Earth in the year 2099, when a greatly reduced human population relies on artificially intelligent robot servants and virtual reality headsets allow people to time travel. (There are also invisible cars). Some …

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