{"id":9525,"date":"2025-12-15T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:56:25","slug":"covid-19-leaves-a-lasting-mark-on-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-leaves-a-lasting-mark-on-the-human-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious disease, highlighting the long-term neurological impact of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Griffith University\u2019s National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Disease (NCNED) used advanced MRI techniques to ascertain the neurological implications of COVID-19 compared with those who had never been infected.<\/p>\n<p>The research provided compelling evidence that even in the absence of ongoing symptoms, prior infection with the virus could leave a measurable imprint on the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious disease, highlighting the long-term neurological impact of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Griffith University\u2019s National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Disease (NCNED) used advanced MRI techniques to ascertain the neurological implications of COVID-19 compared with those who had never been infected.<\/p>\n<p>The research provided compelling evidence that even in the absence of ongoing symptoms, prior infection with the virus could leave a measurable imprint on the brain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-leaves-a-lasting-mark-on-the-human-brain\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human 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":[407,46,18,1302,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-9525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-griffith-university","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525","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=9525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}