{"id":1718,"date":"2022-12-06T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:05","slug":"feeling-forgetful-after-covid-study-shows-the-virus-can-affect-short-term-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/06\/feeling-forgetful-after-covid-study-shows-the-virus-can-affect-short-term-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Feeling forgetful after COVID? Study shows the virus can affect\u00a0short-term\u00a0memory<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/feeling-forgetful-after-covid-study-shows-the-virus-can-affect-short-term-memory-195302\">The Conversation<\/a>)  Although it\u2019s well known that COVID affects the respiratory system, it\u2019s perhaps less well known that the virus can also affect cognitive function. Many people with COVID experience a phenomenon commonly called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cddft.nhs.uk\/media\/922763\/brain%20fog%20info%20leaflet.pdf\">brain fog<\/a>\u201d, which can include problems remembering, concentrating and performing daily tasks. Brain fog can also be a symptom of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bbi.2021.12.020\">long COVID<\/a>, where people suffer ongoing COVID symptoms for months, or even years, after infection. <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0269353\">Related PLoS Study <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Conversation) Although it\u2019s well known that COVID affects the respiratory system, it\u2019s perhaps less well known that the virus can also affect cognitive function. Many people with COVID experience a phenomenon commonly called \u201cbrain fog\u201d, which can include problems remembering, concentrating and performing daily tasks. Brain fog can also be a symptom of\u00a0long COVID, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}