Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

From the article:

“…two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine shed further light on the profound toll of COVID-19 on cognitive health.” And in other studies cases “with mild to moderate COVID-19 showed significant prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that are commensurate with seven years of brain aging.”

  • ted@sh.itjust.works
    311·
    8 months ago

    IQ is sort of bullshit, but it’s a measurement.

    Equating IQ to overall intelligence is fruitless. It’s like asking the weather and only taking the temperature.

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
      21·
      8 months ago

      As a psychologist, high IQ is whatever, but low IQ is good in attempting to understand some individual’s behaviors or even classify kids into special ed classes for a cognitive learning deficiency.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Did they ask the exact same questions as before? If they did, it would probably skew the results. If they didn’t, it would also probably skew the results.

      • Excel@lemmy.megumin.org
        1·
        8 months ago

        If they ask the SAME question and you score still goes DOWN I’m gonna go ahead and call that “a bad sign”.