{"id":5391,"date":"2024-04-12T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2024-04-13T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:24:11","slug":"long-covid-brain-fog-may-be-due-to-damaged-blood-vessels-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/long-covid-brain-fog-may-be-due-to-damaged-blood-vessels-in-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Science News:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result suggests there is a biological basis for this symptom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sciencenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/030624_mr_covid-brainfog_inline.jpg?w=680&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leakiness in the brain could explain the memory and concentration problems linked to long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>In patients with brain fog,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-024-01576-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MRI scans revealed signs of damaged blood vessels in their brains<\/a>, researchers reported February 22 in\u00a0<em>Nature Neuroscience<\/em>. In these people, dye injected into the bloodstream leaked into their brains and pooled in regions that play roles in language, memory, mood and vision.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time anyone\u2019s shown that long COVID patients can have leaky blood brain barriers, says study coauthor Matthew Campbell, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. That barrier, tightly knit cells lining blood vessels, typically keeps\u00a0riffraff\u00a0out of the brain, like bouncers guarding a nightclub.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Science News:Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain The result suggests there is a biological basis for this symptom &nbsp; Leakiness in the brain could explain the memory and concentration problems linked to long COVID. In patients with brain fog,\u00a0MRI scans revealed signs of damaged blood vessels &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/long-covid-brain-fog-may-be-due-to-damaged-blood-vessels-in-the-brain\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2520,15,17],"tags":[4892,4890,4886,4888,3398,4887,4891,4889],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5391","6":"format-standard","7":"category-pandemic","8":"category-science","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-biologic","11":"post_tag-blood-brain-barrier","12":"post_tag-brain-fog","13":"post_tag-concentration","14":"post_tag-long-covid","15":"post_tag-memory","16":"post_tag-neuroscience","17":"post_tag-problems"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}