Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain

Alzheimer’s Disease / Blood-brain barrier leakage / Brain Posted on: March 10, 2026February 10, 2026

Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain

Tracy Swartz Over 20 million Americans are believed to have the debilitating post-infection condition, suffering symptoms such as severe fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness and muscle pain. Now, new research from NYU […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Brain Fog / Cognitive deficit / Dementia / Fatigue / Pain Posted on: June 15, 2025April 14, 2025

Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors

Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties Sumathi Reddy, WSJ Ken Todd stopped working in 2023 after experiencing long-Covid symptoms, including cognitive difficulties. Five years after the […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Basic Research / Cough / Cytokine Storm / Dementia / Fatigue / Hypertension / Joint Pain / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Memory Deficit / Microclotting / PASC / Prevention / Recover / Shortness of Breath / Symptoms / Taste & Smell Disturbance / Treatments Posted on: January 20, 2025August 5, 2024

What Do We Know About Long COVID?

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The disease causes symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Symptoms can feel much like […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Clots & Bleeds / Cognitive Deficits / Diabetes mellitus / Dizziness / Headache / Inflammation / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Pain / Palpitations / Parkinson's Disease / Tinnitus Posted on: August 28, 2022

Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms?

Scientists debate evidence for a micro-clot hypothesis that has some people pursuing potentially risky treatments Authors: Cassandra Willyard Nature 608, 662-664 (2022)doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02286-7 When Lara Hawthorne, an illustrator in Bristol, UK, […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Beta-amyloid plaque / Brain / Brain Fog / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Parkinson's Disease Posted on: August 4, 2022

Study Reveals Possible Causes of Long COVID Brain Fog

Authors: IANS July 2022 A team of international researchers may have uncovered the cause of the neurological conditions seen in patients with long-Covid, such as brain fog. The team from […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Apoptosis / Beta-amyloid plaque / Brain Fog / Natriuetic Peptides / Neurologic Effects / ORF-9b / Proteomics Posted on: August 2, 2022

Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2: potential implications for neurological symptoms in COVID-19

Authors : Mirren Charnley, Saba Islam, Guneet K. Bindra, Jeremy Engwirda, Julian Ratcliffe, Jiangtao Zhou, Raffaele Mezzenga, Mark D. Hulett, Kyunghoon Han, Joshua T. Berryman & Nicholas P. Reynolds Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 3387 (2022) July […]

Alzheimer’s Disease / Beta-amyloid plaque / Brain / Brain Fog / Calcium channel / Cerebrovascular Disease / CNS / Long-haul Disease / Long-term Effects / Mental Health / Oxidative stress / ryanodine receptor / Taste & Smell / TGF-beta Posted on: April 18, 2022

Alzheimer’s-like signaling in brains of COVID-19 patients

Authors: Steve Reiken,Leah Sittenfeld,Haikel Dridi,Yang Liu,Xiaoping Liu,Andrew R. Marks First published: 03 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12558 Abstract Introduction The mechanisms that lead to cognitive impairment associated with COVID-19 are not well […]