{"id":217,"date":"2023-06-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-10-07T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T00:42:05","slug":"camh-study-confirms-ongoing-brain-inflammation-associated-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/camh-study-confirms-ongoing-brain-inflammation-associated-with-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"CAMH study confirms ongoing brain inflammation associated with long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study found elevated levels of inflammation in the brains of patients who report persistent symptoms of long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced brain scanning with positron emission tomography (PET), the researchers found elevated levels of the protein TSPO, a brain marker of inflammation, in patients with onset of depression within several months after a COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Braga J, Lepra M, Kish SJ, et al. Neuroinflammation After COVID-19 With Persistent Depressive and Cognitive Symptoms. <i>JAMA Psychiatry.<\/i> 2023;80(8):787\u2013795. DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2023.1321\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2023.1321<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study found elevated levels of inflammation in the brains of patients who report persistent symptoms of long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced brain scanning with positron emission tomography (PET), the researchers found elevated levels of the protein TSPO, a brain marker of inflammation, in patients with onset of depression within several months after a COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/camh-study-confirms-ongoing-brain-inflammation-associated-with-long-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CAMH study confirms ongoing brain inflammation associated with long COVID<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,69,154,190,46,18,29,67,11,8,14,68],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brain-damage","tag-camh","tag-centre-for-addiction-and-mental-health","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-depression","tag-inflammation","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tspo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}