{"id":9263,"date":"2025-10-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:20:55","slug":"scientists-may-have-discovered-whats-behind-long-covid-related-brain-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/scientists-may-have-discovered-whats-behind-long-covid-related-brain-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have discovered what\u2019s behind long COVID-related brain fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re among the estimated one-in-five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/do-you-have-long-covid-heres-how-to-tell-and-what-we-know-about-the\/article_c32b9f1f-e7f8-4609-9715-d30712bd11e2.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadians who developed long COVID<\/a> symptoms after infection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>, you might be familiar with the memory problems, focusing difficulties and a whole slew of other cognitive impairments that have become emblematic of the condition\u00a0\u2014 collectively known as \u201cbrain fog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite these cognitive symptoms being present in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370(21)00299-6\/fulltext?ref=pmp-magazine.com\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 90 per cent of long COVID<\/a> cases, the biological mechanism behind why brain fog happens&nbsp;\u2014 and how we can treat it&nbsp;\u2014 has remained largely elusive. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/braincomms\/article\/7\/5\/fcaf337\/8258475?login=false\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in peer-reviewed journal Brain Communications<\/a>, found that people living with long COVID had more significantly higher levels of a certain brain receptor than their healthy peers. The more they had, the worse their symptoms tended to get, the study suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re among the estimated one-in-five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/do-you-have-long-covid-heres-how-to-tell-and-what-we-know-about-the\/article_c32b9f1f-e7f8-4609-9715-d30712bd11e2.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadians who developed long COVID<\/a> symptoms after infection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>, you might be familiar with the memory problems, focusing difficulties and a whole slew of other cognitive impairments that have become emblematic of the condition\u00a0\u2014 collectively known as \u201cbrain fog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite these cognitive symptoms being present in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370(21)00299-6\/fulltext?ref=pmp-magazine.com\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 90 per cent of long COVID<\/a> cases, the biological mechanism behind why brain fog happens&nbsp;\u2014 and how we can treat it&nbsp;\u2014 has remained largely elusive. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/braincomms\/article\/7\/5\/fcaf337\/8258475?login=false\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in peer-reviewed journal Brain Communications<\/a>, found that people living with long COVID had more significantly higher levels of a certain brain receptor than their healthy peers. The more they had, the worse their symptoms tended to get, the study suggested.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/scientists-may-have-discovered-whats-behind-long-covid-related-brain-fog\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists may have discovered what\u2019s behind long COVID-related brain fog<\/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":[18,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}