{"id":150064,"date":"2022-11-13T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/long-covid-study-suggests-lost-connections-between-neurons-may-explain-cognitive-symptoms"},"modified":"2022-11-13T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T23:23:54","slug":"long-covid-study-suggests-lost-connections-between-neurons-may-explain-cognitive-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/long-covid-study-suggests-lost-connections-between-neurons-may-explain-cognitive-symptoms","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID study suggests lost connections between neurons may explain cognitive symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-covid-study-suggests-lost-connections-between-neurons-may-explain-cognitive-symptoms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a portion of people who get COVID, symptoms continue for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/healthandsocialcare\/conditionsanddiseases\/bulletins\/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk\/6october2022\">months or even years<\/a> after the initial infection. This is commonly referred to as \u201clong COVID\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some people with long COVID complain of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-is-and-what-isnt-brain-fog-190537\">brain fog<\/a>\u201d, which includes a wide variety of cognitive symptoms affecting memory, concentration, sleep and speech. There\u2019s also growing concern about findings that people who have had COVID are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanpsy\/article\/PIIS2215-0366(22)00260-7\/fulltext\">increased risk<\/a> of developing brain disorders, such as dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are working to understand how exactly a COVID infection affects the human brain. But this is difficult to study, because we can\u2019t experiment on living people\u2019s brains. One way around this is to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41578-021-00279-y\">organoids<\/a>, which are miniature organs grown from stem cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a portion of people who get COVID, symptoms continue for months or even years after the initial infection. This is commonly referred to as \u201clong COVID\u201d. Some people with long COVID complain of \u201cbrain fog\u201d, which includes a wide variety of cognitive symptoms affecting memory, concentration, sleep and speech. There\u2019s also growing concern about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150064","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}