Lasting brain impacts from COVID-19 are equivalent to decades of aging

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Danilo Vitorovic, MD, a neurologist at Loma Linda University Health, supports claims that severe COVID-19 may age the brain by decades. “It’s quite devastating to see these effects on the younger population.” Brain fog, anxiety, and sleep disturbances are some long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, but recent studies have found that severe COVID-19 can cause lasting cognitive and mental health problems. Vitorovic says it’s important to understand that the virus is not in the brain, but instead, the brain is reaping the consequences of severe COVID-19-associated whole-body inflammation. The brain aging process is driven at the cellular level by molecular changes that …read more

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