“New brain MRI study (2025): Post-COVID patients show measurable structural changes - even without hospitalization. Participants were not selected for having Long COVID! What was found, why it matters, and how this fits into what we know about hypothalamus-related circuits.”
Even mild Covid changes children’s brains.
“We speculate that viral-triggered neuroinflammation and immune response contribute to neurotoxic damage in brain regions involved in cognitive processing, ultimately resulting in alterations in cortical morphology and glymphatic function.”
“MRI scans reveal the damage long Covid does to your brain
Researchers suggested lasting Covid symptoms might be an indirect effect of brainstem inflammatory injury”
