A new study found that the COVID-19 pandemic may be linked to more rapid brain aging. Researchers examined the effects of the pandemic — not the disease itself — on brain aging by comparing the "brain age gap" on MRIs taken before and after the pandemic's onset.

New research reveals that simply living through the COVID-19 pandemic — regardless of infection — has measurably aged our brains, with the effect most pronounced in men and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider neurological effects