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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 lemarchr »

OJFord wrote: post #15
dullcrisp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's global news to me. Hello from Australia!

Edit: Ah wait, I think I get what you mean. By "global news" you mean it's been deemed worthy of sharing to an international audience by media outlets, as opposed to a crowdsourcing news source like HN. Is that right?

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

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Post by ljm »

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.

On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth.

Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating.

With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker.

Every generation goes through the same shit in one version or another.

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

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Post by jajko »

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.

Step back, go to some exotic places for few weeks, mingle with locals and stay the hell away from any form of luxury. There is immense beauty in this world, if you care to look for it.

But for sure if you focus yourself on all the negative since its so juicy it will easily drag you down the pit of despair. At any point of time in mankind's history there was plenty of bad stuff happening, often cataclysmic compared to our times.

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

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Post by e44858 »

refulgentis wrote: post #14
phkahler wrote: post #5

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The spike is a sigil that induces a cell to say "Oh cool! You have the ACE2 passcode! Let me inject you into me, virus!" A replica of a key doesn't start a car: you need an engine too.

Could the spike protein push bad things through the blood-brain barrier absent an infection?

"Damage to the brain vessels mediated by the coronavirus spike protein (S-protein) and overactive immune responses have been identified as leading causes of this condition" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36810757/

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

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Post by _whiteCaps_ »

School-Cotton wrote: post #13
_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?

Yeah, it took a few months but it gradually faded.

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

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Post by refulgentis »

e44858 wrote: post #24
refulgentis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The spike is a sigil that induces a cell to say "Oh cool! You have the ACE2 passcode! Let me inject you into me, virus!" A replica of a key doesn't start a car: you need an engine too.

Could the spike protein push bad things through the blood-brain barrier absent an infection? "Damage to the brain vessels mediated by the coronavirus spike protein (S-protein) and overactive immune responses have been identified as leading causes of this condition" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36810757/

If you attached something to it, as we see in the titular mediated, yes. COVID being one thing that does

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

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Post by dboreham »

creativenolo wrote: post #19
School-Cotton wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Title should have been edited for posting here because the namespace scope is global. E.g. the local paper here has headlines like "MSU reserchers get grant" and everyone knows they're referring to Montana State University. But there's other MSUs, just two states away, so the same article carried by Reuters would need the headline changed.

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

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Post by dboreham »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #16
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)

The vaccine makes things better, I assume?

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

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Post by addicted »

ljm wrote: post #22
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.

On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth. Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating. With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker. Every…

All of this has been true for over half a century.

The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed.

Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country.

What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, including smartphones. But unfortunately, those tools are being used almost entirely for the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and for disinforming and misleading people to accelerate the concentration of wealth.

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

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Post by soared »

addicted wrote: post #29
ljm wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth. Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating. With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker. Every…

All of this has been true for over half a century. The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed. Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country. What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, in…

Less war though, at least for those in most of the developed world.
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