The Hong Kong government’s advice for teenagers to “play badminton” when experiencing sexual impulses has been mocked by young people as ineffective in helping them understand their desires ...

Covid-19 lockdown caused changes in the brain structure of teenagers The cortex part of the brain witnessed accelerated thinning during the lockdown The thinning was more in girls than boys Covid-19 ...

WASHINGTON: A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated brain ageing in teenagers. The research, led by Dr Patricia K. Kuhl from ...

Regardless of possible limitations, “the pandemic provided a test case for the fragility of teenagers’ brains,” Kuhl said. “Our research introduces a new set of questions about what it means to speed ...

In the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists measured cortical thinning, a process where redundant brain synapses are pruned and the outer ...