{"id":6023,"date":"2024-03-06T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2024-03-06T06:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:48:34","slug":"long-covid-may-cause-cognitive-decline-of-about-six-iq-points-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/06\/long-covid-may-cause-cognitive-decline-of-about-six-iq-points-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Long covid may cause cognitive decline of about six IQ points, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/02\/29\/long-covid-memory-cognitive-decline-brain-fog\/\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/12\/31\/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-research\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four years since the first cases of covid-19<\/a>&nbsp;were identified \u2014 but many of its longer-term effects, including for those living with long covid, remain unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, a new study has some worrying findings that suggest covid may have longer-term effects on cognition and memory \u2014 and that these lead to measurable differences in cognitive performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2311330?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published Thursday<\/a>&nbsp;in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that participants who recovered from covid symptoms had a cognitive deficit equivalent to three IQ points compared with those who were never infected, while participants suffering from unresolved covid symptoms lasting 12 weeks or more experienced a loss equivalent to six IQ points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But researchers also stressed that the greater cognitive decline associated with persistent symptoms may not be permanent, as participants in this category who had recovered by the time they took part in the study were found to have cognitive deficits comparable to those who recovered quickly.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/a.hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Hampshire<\/a>, the study\u2019s lead author and a professor in restorative neurosciences at Imperial College London, said in a telephone interview Thursday that the improvement for those who previously had longer-term symptoms \u201cgives us a little bit of hope that those who are struggling with long covid at the moment \u2014 when their symptoms eventually resolve \u2014 may experience some cognitive recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post It\u2019s more than&nbsp;four years since the first cases of covid-19&nbsp;were identified \u2014 but many of its longer-term effects, including for those living with long covid, remain unclear. Now, a new study has some worrying findings that suggest covid may have longer-term effects on cognition and memory \u2014 and that these lead to measurable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"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\/6023","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}