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It's quite possible that the causality goes the other direction, and a baseline population of brain disorders is being ascribed to the last notable thing that h
by slavboj 2y ago
It's quite possible that the causality goes the other direction, and a baseline population of brain disorders is being ascribed to the last notable thing that happened to them (which has also happened to ~ the entire population at this point).
- freddie_mercury 2y agoNot really, since the survey paper notes that the EEG pathologies were detected in 69-96% of patients, including children. It is not plausible to propose that 69-96% of patients, including children, had undetected brain disorders and that was the direction of causality.
- hedora 2y agoThat’d only be true if the study population was a random sample of the general population. If they’re only testing people with symptoms, the causality could easily go either way.
- jna_sh 2y agoThe U.K. BioBank study should put this to rest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5 These are participants whose health is being followed long term. They had brain scans before and after COVID, and abnormalities were detected in the scans post-COVID.