More than five Many years after the onset of the Kovide 19 pandemic disease, we are still not only discovering the aftermath of the virus, but also for the long period of stress, loneliness, loss and uncertainty that caused the outbreak. A new scientific study published this month in nature communications has revealed that this pandemic disease can accelerate people in the age even if they were never affected by the corona virus.
Researchers at Nottingham University in the UK analyzed the mental imagery that was caught before and after the beginning of the health crisis. Scientists found that the brain of those who lived through the pandemic disease appeared rapidly during their period, whose brain was scanned only before March 2020.
“The most surprising me was that even those who did not have richness show a significant increase in mental aging rates,” a partner in the study said in a statement on the university website. “It really shows how much of the pandemic experience itself, from loneliness to uncertainty, has affected everything our brain health.”
The team used the UK -bubbank lengthy data, a huge datastate that has been collecting biological information from about half a million people from time to time, including MRI scans of nearly 1,000 one thousand adults. Some of them had received two scans before the pandemic group, while others were implemented in response to the viral outbreak (“pandemic” group) before and after another.
“Before and after pandemic disease from the UK bubbank, the timetic MRI data received us a rare window to see how such a big life can affect the brain.”
To assess each person’s “mental period”, researchers trained the machine learning model on more than 15,000 healthy volunteers without chronic diseases to allow them to determine how big or small the brain looks as larger than its historical age. He then used the device to evaluate the age of MRI brain scans in two bubic groups. When looking at other scans in each group, the average difference between historical and measured age was 5.5 months than the control group.
Researchers also found that this rapid pace of mental aging has been marked more in older people, men and people from backward social economic backgrounds, such as low educational levels, uncertain jobs, or people with housing and health problems.
“This study reminds us that the health of the brain is created not only from the disease but also from our everyday environment,” said Doroti Hour, the main author of the study, in a statement issued by the University of Nottingham. “The epidemic disease put pressure on people’s lives, especially those who are already suffering from harm.”
Although the brain was seen globally in pandemic diseases, only the affected people showed a measurement scientific malfunction, which has been documented in the past. The study has found that those in the pandemic group who suffered between the two scans suffer from mental flexibility and processing speed tests. On the contrary, there are no specific academic changes in those who were not affected, which suggest that the aging aging does not always translate into the visible active symptoms.
However, the authors recognize that there are some important limits to this observational study, which can prejudice the results. These include timely interval between people’s scans, which are different between the two groups, as well as the lack of representation from the British population’s most backward fields in the UK bubbank.
Researchers also highlighted the possibility of overthrowing, as only two -time points analyzed mental scans, which means that in the years, these people may have nerve restoration. “We do not yet know that observed changes can be reversed, but this is an encouraging idea.”
This story originally appeared Wired Nspol And it has been translated from Spanish.
