How COVID lockdowns messed with our brains, increasing anxiety and depression

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Anxiety and depression levels are rising, says brain scientist Alon Chen. Finding ways to re\u002Dengage with the world can help. Learn more

COVID has also manipulated human brains, not as much through any direct effects of the virus, but, Chen suspects, through the emotional toll three years of living with the pathogen has taken. Chen was in Toronto recently to raise awareness and philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute, where scientists recently succeeded in growing synthetic mouse embryos using stem cells taken from skin, and not eggs and sperm.

Mental health strongly depends on environmental stimuli. When you ask why someone develops depression or anxiety or any other mental illness and another person doesn’t, there is a consensus in the field that it’s a combination of genetics, or genetic predispositions — people carry this sensitivity, this vulnerability to develop a disease — but you also need the right environmental exposure, environmental challenge. And environment is everything you drink, smoke, breathe.

The second part is environment. Let’s take stress. Stress can affect you when you’re an adult, a teenager, a baby, even as an embryo. can transmit some signals to the developing embryo. The last decade in neuroscience has been amazing. The field is booming. Today we have technologies that allow us to do things we couldn’t do 10 years ago, from the ability to do genetics at a very high level to the ability to use light to change the activity of nerve cells, allowing us to ask, “Okay, what’s the role of those nerve cells?” There are exciting new treatments and approaches in the pipeline.

 

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...and saved lives

Lol. Amazed that the citizen is now reporting this. Where were you when we were calling for the end to the lockdowns nice try jumping on the bandwagon now that everyone knows the truth.

Covid lockdowns revealed the political destruction of our infallibility of our cherished scientific process.

some are still messed up

We live in a me and selfish society, and people reverted back to their toddlerhood and started whining.

nobody could have known…nobody…🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

And yet they still talk about do another

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