Scientists uncover crucial links between Long COVID and brain blood vessel integrity, offering hope for new treatments and diagnostic methods. A team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro announced a major discovery that has profound importance for our under

This study shows links between Long COVID’s neurological effects, including brain fog and cognitive decline, and brain blood vessel integrity, offering hope for new treatments and diagnostic methods.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9 (open access)

    • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      understanding the underlying cause of these conditions will allow us to develop targeted therapies for patients in the future,” said Prof. Matthew Campbell

      Lets hope so. I imagine they might try medicines to reduce the bleeding and improve healing.

    • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Anecdotally speaking I had covid a few months before vaccination became available (yay) and had horrible brain fog. I forgot a lot of words and really struggled with finishing sentences, things like that. It did improve but it took about a year. At the same time one of my toes kept swelling up every time my feet got cold and that stopped around the same time my ability to think improved.