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.

The brains of healthy people aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic than did the brains of people analysed before the pandemic began, a study of almost 1,000 people suggests. The accelerated ageing occurred even in people who didn’t become infected.

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