{"id":3669,"date":"2023-12-04T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:05:52","slug":"small-study-finds-brain-alterations-after-covid-omicron-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/small-study-finds-brain-alterations-after-covid-omicron-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Small study finds brain alterations after COVID Omicron infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China report thinning of the gray matter and other changes in certain parts of the brain in 61&nbsp;men after COVID-19 Omicron infection.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, published late last week in JAMA Network Open, the researchers evaluated 61&nbsp;men before and after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in January 2023. The men had been part of a larger cohort who had undergone magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychiatric screenings before infection in August and September 2022. Average age was 43 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China report thinning of the gray matter and other changes in certain parts of the brain in 61&nbsp;men after COVID-19 Omicron infection.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, published late last week in JAMA Network Open, the researchers evaluated 61&nbsp;men before and after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in January 2023. The men had been part of a larger cohort who had undergone magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychiatric screenings before infection in August and September 2022. Average age was 43 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/small-study-finds-brain-alterations-after-covid-omicron-infection\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small study finds brain alterations after COVID Omicron infection<\/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":[37,46,18,55,8,14],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-omicron","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}