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

Using advanced machine learning models trained on over 15,000 healthy participants, the team estimated each person’s “brain age”— a measure of how old their brain appears compared to their actual age.