{"id":152819,"date":"2022-12-14T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/potential-new-treatment-for-brain-fog-in-long-covid-patients"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:23","slug":"potential-new-treatment-for-brain-fog-in-long-covid-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/potential-new-treatment-for-brain-fog-in-long-covid-patients","title":{"rendered":"Potential new treatment for \u2018brain fog\u2019 in long COVID patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potential-new-treatment-for-brain-fog-in-long-covid-patients3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Individuals with long COVID, sometimes referred to as \u201clong-haulers,\u201d experience symptoms that may persist for weeks, months, or even years after their acute viral infection. While symptoms vary widely, a common complaint among patients is \u201cbrain fog\u201d\u2014a colloquial term for significant, persistent cognitive deficits, with consistent impairment of executive functioning and working memory.<\/p>\n<p>Long-haulers may experience a lack of mental clarity, poor focus and concentration, memory problems, difficulty with multi-tasking, and more. Brain fog can be debilitating, but there currently are no treatment options that are approved for the condition.<\/p>\n<p>While the number of patients they studied is too small for their results to be definitive, Yale researchers, using their extensive experience with two existing medications, have published initial evidence that those drugs, given together, can mitigate or even eliminate brain fog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals with long COVID, sometimes referred to as \u201clong-haulers,\u201d experience symptoms that may persist for weeks, months, or even years after their acute viral infection. While symptoms vary widely, a common complaint among patients is \u201cbrain fog\u201d\u2014a colloquial term for significant, persistent cognitive deficits, with consistent impairment of executive functioning and working memory. Long-haulers may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152819","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\/152819","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}