The Haunting Brain Science of Long COVID:
Matt (24 years old): “I feel like I’m underwater. When you talk to me, I can hear you, but my doesn’t understand words. I can’t comprehend what you’re saying. I have no intellectual capacity to digest data.”
In this piece I wrote for STAT, I use science to raise awareness of a growing public health nightmare hiding in plain sight - Neuro-Long COVID. I unpack 20 relevant medical articles.
Check it out & stay safe.
@WesElyMD ah. this sentence was confusing "we found brain swelling due to decreased blood flow and heightened activity in microglial cells, the so-called white matter in brains that support the neurons that transmit thoughts and help store information"
@kswilcox the main component of white matter that I was referring to in this article are axons, but it is also the case that glial cells are present in both gray and white matter.