PharmaTimes March 1, 2024
Jen Brogan

Different factors, such as illness duration and virus variant, impacted patients cognitive abilities

Imperial College London (ICL) researchers have revealed that people who have recovered from COVID-19 could have small but long-lasting impacts on the performance of cognitive and memory tasks.

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the REACT Long COVID study enrolled over 140,000 participants, including long COVID patients, who undertook at least one cognitive task.

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. For some patients, the condition can lead to long COVID, where symptoms can last up to 12 weeks.

Using an innovative online cognitive assessment via the Cognitron platform, researchers detected subtle changes in different areas of brain function, including memory, reasoning,...

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