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. Researchers from Stanford University analyzed MRI scans taken from people 15 to 18 years old before the pandemic and compared them with scans from their peers taken during the pandemic. The new scans showed teens' brains looked about three years older than those of their pre-COVID counterparts, according to the study published Thursday in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. To read more, visit the link in our bio. #covid19 #teenage #students