brain research
College Station, TEXAS — With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. These findings are raising concerns about the long-term impacts that the coronavirus...

![Brain images from a 35-year-old and an 85-year-old. Orange arrows show the thinner gray matter in the older individual. Green arrows point to areas where there is more space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) due to reduced brain volume. The purple circles highlight the brains’ ventricles, which are filled with CSF. In older adults, these fluid-filled areas are much larger. [credit: Jessica Bernard, CC BY-ND] brain images of older person and younger person](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/brain_images_web.jpg?itok=Wx397SfB)