Researchers from Cambridge_Uni have found that some recovered patients are left with cognitive and mental health issues including brain fog, trouble remembering words, and PTSD - via healthing_ca healthing health
Researchers found that people who had contracted COVID were more likely to develop mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, substance use and cognitive decline.A separate study mentioned in the statement suggests that one out of every seven people who caught COVID in the U.K. were reporting cognitive difficulties up to 12 weeks after their initial positive test.
This was the first time that this level of assessment had been performed on COVID-19 patients. The results showed that t “We followed some patients up as late as ten months after their acute infection, so we were able to see a very slow improvement,” Menon said. “While this was not statistically significant, it is at least heading in the right direction, but it is very possible that some of these individuals will never fully recover.”
The patients were particularly bad at verbal analogical reasoning, which supports the thought that COVID has an impact on people’s word retention.Previous studies have shown that there is a possibility of decreased brain glucose, which is essentially fuel for the brain. Since the patients showed slower processing speeds, researchers believe this was observed in their study as well.