Brain inflammation found in long COVID patients: Canadian study
The filmmaker from Woodbridge, Ont., had never had writer’s block in her life – but she couldn’t find the words to make revisions to a screenplay she’d been working on.“I’ve never in my life suffered from depression,” Coles said. “My friends refer to me as the eternal optimist.”
The current study shows brain inflammation in people who have recovered from acute COVID-19 but go on to have lasting neurological problems _ even though their initial infection wasn’t severe, he said. Most of them had additional cognitive issues associated with long COVID, including problems with memory and concentration, also known as “brain fog.”
“We know that when there’s injury to these brain regions you get some of the symptoms that we’re seeing in the people with long COVID,” Meyer said. Dr. Angela Cheung, co-lead of a national long COVID research network and senior physician-scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto, said the study confirms what long COVID researchers have suspected for some time.“We have always thought that inflammation plays a part,” said Cheung, who was not involved in the CAMH study.
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