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Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by School-Cotton »

_whiteCaps_ wrote: post #2

I had strange symptoms post-Covid infection - my ability to recognize faces was very distorted and it seemed like everyone was familiar to me. It was like everyone I saw was an old high school acquaintance or maybe a celebrity, and I would get anxious because I didn't remember their name.

Did you recover?

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by OJFord »

dullcrisp wrote: post #8
dyauspitr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why? Would this be more interesting if they were in the UK?

Kind of, in the sense that it sounds like a global news headline, vs. 'University of Exeter researchers find [...]' published by exeter.ac.uk, on this globally read site.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by throwawaymaths »

findthewords wrote: post #6

Alz is brain inflammatory response to viruses (among other foreing detritus) that got past the blood-brain barrier, so I'm not surprised.

Not fully known but increasing evidence. Pretty stunning result is the discontinuity in all causes dementia for NHS seniors in Wales with the week of birth as the discontinuity point (week of birth is cutoff qualifier for a shingles vaccine)

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Post by dyauspitr »

dullcrisp wrote: post #8
dyauspitr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why? Would this be more interesting if they were in the UK?

I feel like it would be trusted a little bit more if it was a study by the NHS from the UK rather than something from Kentucky.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by xyst »

Today’s generations just do not get a break.

Brain rot in the form of social media. Cognitive decline from possible long COVID. Constant exposure to microplastics from various sources (water contamination, water bottles, plastic wrapping, cars via tire breakdown).

This timeline fucking sucks.

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Post by creativenolo »

School-Cotton wrote: post #12
dyauspitr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not really clickbait. University of Kentucky press releases always refer to it as UK.

It is not clear from your comment why always doing it would not be clickbait-like. I am sure even the majority of Americans would assume that when the letters “UK” are used in isolation, it would mean the country and not a state university.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by causality0 »

xyst wrote: post #18

Today’s generations just do not get a break. Brain rot in the form of social media. Cognitive decline from possible long COVID. Constant exposure to microplastics from various sources (water contamination, water bottles, plastic wrapping, cars via tire breakdown). This timeline fucking sucks.

It feels like a Black Mirror episode. A bunch of things shaving little slivers off our intelligence until we're too stupid to save ourselves.
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