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·
    10 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·
      10 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·
      10 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·
        10 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”.