COVID-19 Made Our Brains Age Faster

Except it didn't...

We saw same of the same effects, but brain plasticity remains well into our 60s. Then it kind of nosedives.

For people who didn't replace activities during lockdown, they stopped using some parts of their brains, which a year or two is enough time to translate to these changes in those specific areas. It would be highly localized, so not as bad as this study makes it out to be.

But with a return to those activities, we should see a rebound.

The study is better than the article and touches on what I suspect is the main problem:

A lot of people were financially better off pre-pandemic.

And that would explain why numbers aren't rebounding, were still fucked economically.

Lockdown didn't age our brains faster. Poverty is actively and continually aging our brains faster