{"id":1091,"date":"2021-07-26T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2021-07-26T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T20:44:00","slug":"covid-19-brain-fog-inspires-search-for-causes-and-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 \u2018brain fog\u2019 inspires search for causes and treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/author\/kelly-servick\">Kelly Servick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">The true prevalence of cognitive problems in COVID-19 survivors is elusive, and the underlying causes of lingering symptoms&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/04\/how-scientists-are-teasing-apart-biology-long-covid\">are the subject of ongoing studies<\/a>. But it\u2019s now clear that trouble thinking, concentrating, and remembering can be among the most debilitating \u201clong-haul\u201d symptoms and can persist for months. As more and more people seek help to overcome their brain fog at clinics set up for post\u2013COVID-19 care, researchers and physicians are turning to treatments developed for stroke and traumatic brain injuries. And a few are setting out to test cognitive training video games they hope will expand the reach of therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">\u201cEven if it\u2019s a fairly small percentage [of survivors] who report cognitive problems, the number of overall people in that category \u2026 represents a tremendous problem,\u201d says James Jackson, a clinical psychologist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine\u2019s ICU Recovery Center, where Furr will participate in a support group for COVID-19 long haulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/04\/covid-19-brain-fog-inspires-search-causes-and-treatments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/04\/covid-19-brain-fog-inspires-search-causes-and-treatments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Kelly Servick The true prevalence of cognitive problems in COVID-19 survivors is elusive, and the underlying causes of lingering symptoms&nbsp;are the subject of ongoing studies. But it\u2019s now clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,155,168,203,206,309,561,592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-fog","category-etiology","category-fatigue","category-headache","category-hearing","category-memory","category-symptoms-covid-19","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}