A five-year study of 10,000 adolescents found that the pandemic damaged every teenager’s mental health, then hit the most genetically vulnerable ones with additional harm on top
Neuroscience · Jul 15, 2026 · 8 min read

A five-year study of 10,000 adolescents found that the pandemic damaged every teenager’s mental health, then hit the most genetically vulnerable ones with additional harm on top

When the pandemic ended and schools reopened, a widespread assumption took hold: the mental health crisis among teenagers was a product of the crisis conditions, and as those…

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A new study shows children are not moral blank slates: prosocial gut feelings appear at age 3 and deliberate reasoning spends the next five years catching up

A new study shows children are not moral blank slates: prosocial gut feelings appear at age 3 and deliberate reasoning spends the next five years catching up

A new study tracked children from age 3 to 10 and found that moral gut feelings appear years before the reasoning that adults assume teaches them, and the…

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