The following is from Children’s Health Defense by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that accelerated brain maturation during the COVID-19 lockdowns was particularly pronounced in teenage girls, with a mean acceleration of 4.2 years in females compared to 1.4 years in males.
The teenagers’ brains demonstrated signs of cortical thinning — described by The Telegraph as “a natural process that happens with age and can be accelerated by stress.”
Neva Corrigan, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a researcher at I-LABS, told Euronews the study represents “just another piece of evidence that lockdowns had consequences that weren’t anticipated by policymakers.”
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense, told The Defender the study “is a horrifying testament to the significant damage caused by lockdowns, among other draconian measures, from the COVID-19 era.”
Ian Gotlib, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Stanford University and lead author of the 2023 National Institute of Mental Health study, told The Guardian, “It’s important to recognise that although the pandemic is largely over, the effects of the stress of the pandemic are still there for children and adolescents.”
For the full article, read more at Children’s Health Defense here.
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One good thing at least they couldn’t dispense the injurious SSRI’s to children . No long term study has ever been done on the effects of SSRI’s on the children’s developing brains.