COVID-19 is leaving all kinds of legacies on our health, both on our bodies and our brains. In a study published July 22 in Nature Communications, researchers report that living through the pandemic aged our brains—whether or not you were infected with COVID-19.

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

Researchers examined multiple brain scans and found an age acceleration of five and a half months associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.