{"id":7989,"date":"2025-02-10T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:10:25","slug":"long-covid-patients-show-brain-swelling-linked-to-memory-and-concentration-problems-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-patients-show-brain-swelling-linked-to-memory-and-concentration-problems-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID patients show brain swelling linked to memory and concentration problems, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID patients exhibit swelling in an area of the brain linked to memory problems, poor concentration and delayed responses during conversations, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>Based on high-powered scanning, Griffith University scientists say they have also shown patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) share similar issues in a part of the brain known as the hippocampus.<\/p>\n<p>Because the shape of the hippocampus resembles that of a sea horse, the name is derived from the Greek words, hippos, meaning horse, and kampos, meaning sea monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID patients exhibit swelling in an area of the brain linked to memory problems, poor concentration and delayed responses during conversations, researchers have found.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-patients-show-brain-swelling-linked-to-memory-and-concentration-problems-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long COVID patients show brain swelling linked to memory and concentration problems, study finds<\/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":[407,18,1302,1305,11,1247,1016,1303,1304,8,14],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-griffith-university","tag-hippocampus","tag-long-covid","tag-me-cfs","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-national-centre-for-neuroimmunology-and-emerging-diseases","tag-ncned","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","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=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7990,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}