University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, 61 adults about 8 months after COVID were scanned by MRI.

Those with persistent smell loss showed structural changes in the amygdala linked to smell and emotion, along with higher anxiety and depression scores.

Among adults with COVlD-related changes in smell and taste, 23% experience severe or total loss.

Importantly, the cumulative burden will increase with repeat infections, it diminishes quality of life, & it indicates neurological damage.

How COVID Might Sow Chaos in the Brain

SARS-CoV-2 appears to travel widely across the cerebral cortex

Headaches, hallucinations, vivid dreams, smell & taste anomalies, strokes and seizures

80% of COVID patients encountered neurological complications