SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants have complained of neurological complications such as confusion, strokes, impaired concentration, headaches, sensory disturbances, depression, and even psychosis, months after the initial infection.
As the world anticipates a fourth Covid wave, considering surge in cases in Asia, US, which are being fueled by the Omicron variants, researchers at the University of Oxford have conducted the first major peer-reviewed study comparing the brain scans of 785 people, aged 51 to 81 of whom 401 had contracted Covid and 384 had not.
There were, on average, 141 days between testing positive for Covid and the second brain scan. What Researchers at the University of Oxford have conducted a survey to consider if the coronavirus affects the brain of its patients.
Earlier news reports have warned that “even mild Covid can cause brain shrinkage", “memory loss" and “long term" “brain damage" that “greatly" changes the brain “as much as a decade of aging." The study took brain scans of 785 people.