{"id":6842,"date":"2024-08-19T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2024-08-20T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T23:21:31","slug":"covid-related-loss-of-smell-tied-to-changes-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-related-loss-of-smell-tied-to-changes-in-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-69772-y\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> of 73&nbsp;adults recovering from COVID-19 finds that those who lost their sense of smell showed behavioral, functional, and structural brain changes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Chile conducted cognitive screening, performance on a decision-making task, functional testing, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results with 73&nbsp;patients after mild to moderate COVID-19 infection and 27&nbsp;COVID-na\u00efve patients with infections from other pathogens. Two follow-up sessions were conducted 15&nbsp;days apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-69772-y\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> of 73&nbsp;adults recovering from COVID-19 finds that those who lost their sense of smell showed behavioral, functional, and structural brain changes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Chile conducted cognitive screening, performance on a decision-making task, functional testing, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results with 73&nbsp;patients after mild to moderate COVID-19 infection and 27&nbsp;COVID-na\u00efve patients with infections from other pathogens. Two follow-up sessions were conducted 15&nbsp;days apart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-related-loss-of-smell-tied-to-changes-in-the-brain\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain<\/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":[148,1214,37,683,46,18,11,146,8,14,1215],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anosmia","tag-behavioural-changes","tag-brain-damage","tag-chile","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-loss-of-smell","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-structural-brain-changes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","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=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}