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The scientists were amazed. They had looked at brains of two different groups of teenagers. But they were not expecting there to be so many differences.

The first group of teenagers were studied before the Covid-19The official scientific name for the type of coronavirus that swept the world from March 2020. lockdownPeriods of time when, due to the coronavirus pandemic, people were ordered to stay indoors. . The second group had their brains scanned afterwards.

The scientists found out that during lockdown, the teenagers' brains aged faster than normal. The teenagers who had been through lockdown were also more worried and sad.

It is hard to know what to make of these results. Did the faster ageing of their brains make the teenagers more stressed? Was it even a bad thing?

In older people, these changes often stop their brains working properly. But the head of the project, Professor Ian Gotlib, says it is not clear what it means for young people.

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We should not be surprised. Today, we know more about space than our own brains.

We still do not know why we dream. And we do not know how we are able to think about ourselves and know that we exist.

The problem is that the brain is much more complexDifficult or complicated. than any other part of the body.

A breakthrough could be near, thanks to the EUEuropean Union. An economic and political union of 27 countries. 's Human Brain Project. This aims to create a big computer model including everything we know about the brain.

Yes! Nobody knows for certain exactly how the mind words. It is so complex that no one will ever fully understand it.

No! We know so much more about science than ever before. One day, someone will crack the code of the brain. And technology will help them do it.