The Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) can be used to effectively measure stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify children and adults with higher levels of stress who may need ...

It's no secret that months of pandemic-era lockdowns led to dramatic learning loss among American children. What has surprised researchers is exactly which students were most affected, especially in ...

The mental health impact of the closing schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a subject of wide-ranging public discourse and research for years. Now, a new large-scale study shows that ...

Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns. By Ellen Barry A study of adolescent brain development that tested children ...

(NEXSTAR) – A new study comparing the brains of children before and after COVID-19 found that adolescent girls’ brains had aged faster than expected during the social isolation and lockdowns brought ...

Mental health ER visits for young people rose during the pandemic. Four years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows how severely the pandemic impacted young people's mental ...

WASHINGTON — Brain scans could be used to predict how teenagers’ mental health will fare during a stressful time, an analysis that spanned the COVID-19 pandemic suggests. The findings, presented ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. in March 2020, life came to a standstill and millions of people experienced drastic changes in their lifestyles. For adolescents, this meant ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study comparing the brains of children ...