{"id":127755,"date":"2021-09-17T03:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/neurologist-explores-link-between-covid-and-brain-fog-memory-loss-and-dementia"},"modified":"2021-09-17T03:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:23:29","slug":"neurologist-explores-link-between-covid-and-brain-fog-memory-loss-and-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/neurologist-explores-link-between-covid-and-brain-fog-memory-loss-and-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Neurologist Explores Link Between COVID and \u201cBrain Fog,\u201d Memory Loss and Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurologist-explores-link-between-covid-and-brain-fog-memory-loss-and-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new Rutgers study will examine how COVID-19 is affecting individuals in a number of cognitive-related areas, including memory loss, \u201cbrain fog,\u201d and dementia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people who recover from mild or moderate COVID-19 notice slowed thinking or memory loss, and this motivated us to leverage our experience in studying cognitive issues related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease, multiple sclerosis, and HIV to examine this phenomenon,\u201d said Dr. William T. Hu, associate professor and chief of cognitive neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.<\/p>\n<p>A leading cognitive neurologist and neuroscientist, Dr. Hu is spearheading the characterization of cognitive impairment following mild-to-moderate COVID-19 at Rutgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Rutgers study will examine how COVID-19 is affecting individuals in a number of cognitive-related areas, including memory loss, \u201cbrain fog,\u201d and dementia. \u201cMany people who recover from mild or moderate COVID-19 notice slowed thinking or memory loss, and this motivated us to leverage our experience in studying cognitive issues related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}