brain fog

Now published, see post #21. Smartphone-based monitoring of heart rate variability and resting heart rate predicts variability in symptom exacerbations in people with complex chronic illness Abstract: Background: Complex chronic conditions like Long COVID and Myalgic...

Someone pointed out that "brainfog" sounded like a trivial symptom. It really doesn't convey how much the symptom affects our lives, or the fact that it doesn't just go away the next morning ... or the next year or next decade. Something like "Brain crippling" might get a more appropriate...

Subjective brain fog: a four-dimensional characterization in 25,796 participants Ali Alim-Marvasti, Matteo Ciocca, Narayan Kuleindiren, Aaron Lin, Hamzah Selim, Mohammad Mahmud Abstract Importance: Brain fog is associated with significant morbidity and reduced productivity and gained...

Brain hypoxia, neurocognitive impairment, and quality of life in people post-COVID-19 Adingupu, Damilola D.; Soroush, Ateyeh; Hansen, Ayden; Twomey, Rosie; Dunn, Jeff F. OBJECTIVES Systemic hypoxia occurs in COVID-19 infection; however, it is unknown if cerebral hypoxia occurs in convalescent...

Background – Long Covid is a complex condition characterised by symptoms that persist for weeks and months after the Covid infection, accompanied by cognitive impairment that negatively affects daily life. Understanding this complex condition is important for the development of diagnostic and...

Highlights • Improvement from post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment (CI) is slow • Post-COVID-19 CI is molecularly distinct from Alzheimer’s disease • Post-COVID-19 CI is associated with CSF monocyte recruitment and gene alterations • Improvement from post-COVID-19 CI is linked to greater CSF...

Long Covid and Impaired Cognition — More Evidence and More Work to Do https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189 The cardinal features of long Covid include fatigue, dysautonomia (or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), postexertional malaise, and cognitive difficulties that are...

Neuroinflammatory imaging markers in white matter: insights into the cerebral consequences of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 PASC Sean Clouston; Chuan Huang; Jia Ying; Zennur Sekendiz; Minos Kritikos; Ashley Fontana; Lev Bangiyev; Benjamin Luft Symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...

Abstract Debilitating symptoms of fatigue and accompanying “brain fog” are observed among patients with various chronic health conditions. Unfortunately, an efficient and psychometrically sound instrument to assess these co-occurring symptoms is unavailable. Here, we report the development and...

When there's nothing else to offer Long Covid patients, there's always Hope (for "fatigue, anxiety and brain fog"). Source: my GP practice's FB page.

Post-Vaccination Syndrome: A Descriptive Analysis of Reported Symptoms and Patient Experiences After Covid-19 Immunization Harlan M Krumholz; Yilun Wu; Mitsuaki Sawano; Rishi Shah; Tianna Zhou; Adith S Arun; Pavan Khosla; Shayaan Kaleem; Anushree Vashist; Bornali Bhattacharjee; Qinglan Ding...

Plasma proteomics show altered inflammatory and mitochondrial proteins in patients with neurologic symptoms of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection Hanson; Visvabharathy; Orban; Jimenez; Batra; Liotta; DeLisle; Klausner; Cohen; Padhye; Tachas; Koralnik Persistent symptoms of COVID-19...

The kynurenine pathway relates to post-acute COVID-19 objective cognitive impairment and PASC Abstract Objective To determine the prevalence and natural history of post-acute COVID-19 objective cognitive impairment and function, and their relationship to demographic, clinical factors...

Not sure how the following paragraph even made it in when we're talking about a 31% increase in GP visits for this in 25-44 year olds... Back to reality... Article

Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection IMPORTANCE SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with persistent, relapsing, or new symptoms or other health effects occurring after acute infection, termed postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as...

Abstract After recovering from the acute phase of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many patients struggle with additional symptoms of long COVID during the chronic phase. Among them, the neuropsychiatric manifestations characterized by a short-term memory loss and inability to concentrate...

Moved from the Long covid in the media thread. For the full title and abstract of the published paper see post #9. Potential New Treatment for “Brain Fog” in Long COVID Patients, 2022, Yale School of Medicine

Every time the disability of ME/CFS is portrayed as people who were once physically active in life (often athletes) who can no longer reach the physical performance that they used to have. In severe cases, it's housebound or bedbound patients who "struggle to take a shower" or "can't go out for...

I thought I'd post this (rather long) article from The Guardian, about a new book by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee. It discusses depression and the search for a new paradigm to describe and understand it. It interested me because in a sense, it would be helpful to do something similar with brain fog...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mental-mishaps/202209/will-covid-brain-fog-increase-risks-alzheimer-s-disease