Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

From the article:

“…two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine shed further light on the profound toll of COVID-19 on cognitive health.” And in other studies cases “with mild to moderate COVID-19 showed significant prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that are commensurate with seven years of brain aging.”

    • ted@sh.itjust.works
      321·
      8 months ago

      IQ is sort of bullshit, but it’s a measurement.

      Equating IQ to overall intelligence is fruitless. It’s like asking the weather and only taking the temperature.

      • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
        21·
        8 months ago

        As a psychologist, high IQ is whatever, but low IQ is good in attempting to understand some individual’s behaviors or even classify kids into special ed classes for a cognitive learning deficiency.

      • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        Did they ask the exact same questions as before? If they did, it would probably skew the results. If they didn’t, it would also probably skew the results.

        • Excel@lemmy.megumin.org
          1·
          8 months ago

          If they ask the SAME question and you score still goes DOWN I’m gonna go ahead and call that “a bad sign”.