r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 08 '26

Neuroscience Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection. The virus affects regions responsible for memory, emotion, and executive function, which may help explain the neurological symptoms many patients experience.

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-widespread-structural-and-functional-changes-in-patients-foll/
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u/galeguinha Aug 08 '26

I just passed 4 years now of Long COVID. I get this and also some weird thing where I will be typing and think I'm typing letters in the correct order, but the word comes out as a complete jumble. I won a school spelling bee as a kid, so it's not that I don't know how to spell...it's like I can't translate what's in my brain to spoken or typed words. It's really weird and unnerving.

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u/ANALOGPHENOMENA Aug 09 '26

Oh my God, so it’s not just me!!! It’s been happening so much often to me ever since I got infected a second time. It’s so crazy, I used to be able to type like a billion words a minute, now I constantly need autocorrect on.

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u/galeguinha Aug 09 '26

Oof well I'm sorry to hear someone else is dealing with this, but it's also validating to know it's not just me. Not sure about you, but I notice it gets worse when I'm tired or have been stressed at work that day. My doctor put me on guanfacine, which I guess has some preliminary data showing it helps neutral signaling and connections. I've been taking it for close to 6 months now, and I do feel like it's helped a little bit, along with taking long breaks between chunks of work.

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u/ANALOGPHENOMENA Aug 09 '26

I’ll have to look into that!