Frontiers | Neuropsychiatric symptoms cluster as primary drivers of Long COVID complexity: a South Texas retrospective cohort study
Country legend opens up about health battle and treatment that changed her life
“But it really messed with my smell and taste. I’d say I’m a longCOVID person. I had all the brain fog… people were like, 'You are in menopause,’ and I would be like, 'Yeah, but this is different because I’m looking at a rolling pin and I can’t name it.’”
Excess weight is associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 condition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
A new study published Wednesday in PLOS has identified neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms — headaches, vertigo, sleep problems, smell and taste disorder, depression — as more likely to occur in people with what the authors term “excess weight” based on BMI.
Vaccination prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection does not affect the neurologic manifestations of long COVID
“Vaccination prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection does not affect the neurologic manifestations of long COVID”
Sluggish gas exchange in the lungs may be involved in long-COVID brain fog | CIDRAP
“Lower rates of gas exchange in the lungs may contribute to impaired cognitive function ("brain fog") tied to long COVID, according to a small study to be presented at next week's Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA's) annual meeting in Chicago.
Pulmonary gas exchange is the movement of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream and carbon dioxide from the bloodstream to the lungs.”
Penn Study Finds Serotonin Reduction Causes Long COVID Symptoms
Long COVID patients show reduced serotonin levels due to decreased tryptophan absorption, leading to symptoms like brain fog and memory loss.