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The same way that vain and unsympathetic physicians have always explained it. They are strong-minded and strong-willed and their patients are weak-minded and weak-willed; or they would just pull themselves together after their minor illness. A pandemic just gives more people the idea that they...

NPR: If Your Brain Feels Foggy And You're Tired All The Time, You're Not Alone May 7, 2021, by Rhitu Chatterjee (4:30m; with transcript). << While some people who have had COVID-19 report brain fog and fatigue as lingering symptoms of their infection — what's known as long COVID — mental...

Idiocracy is a given. My money has long been on "a" (with a train of dark suspicions).

To get to the origin of this complicated affliction:

For A Sultana Adultery, that was quite good. They did present it as basically a women's disease, and there was no mention of LC, and it was pretty obviously a PR job as she was a Nine personality, but she was pretty forthright and they had Dr Heidi Nicholl in there and a little ad for Emerge...

As someone with a background in the physical sciences (okay, BSc drop-out, due to the bother), and who has always had difficulty in remembering, let alone understanding, the basics of biology, I find it quite amusing that favouring simplicity in biology should be proposed. In physics, they were...

C.J. has taken a poll over on H.R., with ~3,500 respondents, and has given the results here: Health Rising Poll Results << While most people are doing okay, some people are having real trouble with the vaccine. Depending on which shot is received, from 5-16% of people reported still having...

The above letter is by the redoutable Doctor David Tuller.

Yes, I posted the Quanta article before but the paper hadn't been. It came up in the Sleep Deprivation experiment thread.

In the video, it isn't made clear that when it is said that further sleep does not clear their tracer, they mean only that it wasn't cleared after 48 hours, when they did a second scan; the first scan being after one night of sleep deprivation and sleep being allowed the second night (with the...

And see here for an article about this paper: Quanta Magazine: Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons, 2019, Elena Renken There is a nice piece of animated neuroimaging showing the pulsation that they observed.

I've just posted the paper that you might be thinking of: here.

Nina E. Fultz, Giorgio Bonmassar, Kawin Setsompop, Robert A. Stickgold, Bruce R. Rosen, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Laura D. Lewis. Abstract Sleep is essential for both cognition and maintenance of healthy brain function. Slow waves in neural activity contribute to memory consolidation, whereas...

Full title: Power Profiling, Workload Characteristics, and Race Performance of U23 and Professional Cyclists During the Multistage Race Tour of the Alps Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the power profile, internal and external workloads, and racing performance between U23 and...

Thanks for that. They'd set me up with this passage: But not a typo! "The term misery perfusion refers to a condition of the cerebral circulation in which regional blood flow is reduced relative to regional metabolic demand for oxygen." And yes, it's fascinating stuff. Dense, dense...

So glad they've found where it comes from.

The thread on their previous paper is here: A Unifying Hypothesis of the Pathophysiology of (ME/CFS)

That url is no longer working. It's now here: https://www.simmaronresearch.com/blog/2020/05/blood-vessel-crunch-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

Abstract Much of human behaviour is motivated by the drive to experience pleasure. The capacity to envisage pleasurable outcomes and to engage in goal-directed behaviour to secure these outcomes depends upon the integrity of frontostriatal circuits in the brain. Anhedonia refers to the...

This might be off-topic but it does seem to me to be of interest regarding brain fog. If the "switching" neurons in this amazing, orthogonal, memory-coding system were somehow interfered with, short-term memory would, presumably, suffer. And with the short-term memory also stored in the sensory...