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Even mild Covid-19 can cause your brain to shrink
- ekianjo 5y agoSince when is the nationalgeographic a serious scientific publication?
- Sakos 5y agoTheir sources are decent and it tracks with what I've read elsewhere. What's the problem?
- HarryHirsch 5y agoUnlike, say, the NY Times they offer direct links to the scientific literature. What was your point again?
- sto_hristo 5y agoDo you have anything in concrete to share with us or you simply like the clicky sounds your keyboard makes?
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoThey’re only reporting other work: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5
- thedays 5y agohttps://archive.ph/wnW75 https://archive.ph/wnW75
- leetrout 5y agoI have 3 vaccines and after the third, around 16 days later, got covid. So much mental fuzziness. After recovering I got covid again (assuming omicron) and recovered. My word recall is absolute garbage. My memory of the first quarter of the year is fuzzy. Otherwise I am doing OK and seeing improvements. But I know conversations with me are painful when I cant come up with the right words.
- WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
- awiesenhofer 5y agoI like how on the front page this is currently right next to: "The brain expands and shrinks over time" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048591
- inglor_cz 5y agoI didn't suffer any obvious cognitive problems after Covid, but I had a lot of muscle twitching, and while it slowly receded, my right eyelid is actually twitching a little right now. I have never had anything like that before, and my life isn't very stressful. It is some kind of nerve damage. And my cardiologist has the very same symptoms.
- KSPAtlas 5y agoI noticed that I have been blinking a lot Kore since I got COVID for the second time, though my body is rather young so I may have milder effects.
- KSPAtlas 5y ago*more
- leetrout 5y agoNot trying to spread any sort of misinformation but several folks have reported the same on reddit from both the vaccine and an infection. https://www.reddit.com/r/BFS/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BFS/
- naoqj 5y agoSo covid-19 relieves brain inflammation? Cool!
- cf141q5325 5y agoAnother gem from the article right at the bottom >Although COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in protecting against serious illness, they do not protect against "long COVID" in people who become infected despite vaccination.
- mach1ne 5y agoWhile neurological problems are an undeniable and perhaps the scariest aspect of COVID infection (aside from death), I wonder if sometimes the problems with word recall are simply caused by the long-term lack of social contacts. My own social interactions have dropped drastically since the beginning of the pandemic (which I believe is a common feeling) and it causes two things; first, I don't use exotic words in conversations so often, causing true recall problems, and second, I have forgotten how difficult word recall sometimes was even pre-pandemic. As is common with probabilities, some of the problems are explained by the two factors stemming from isolation alone, while others are caused by COVID infection. I wonder what the portions are.
- mitchbob 5y agoArchived: https://archive.ph/wnW75 https://archive.ph/wnW75