{"id":12846345,"date":"2025-10-14T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12846345"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:09:41","slug":"long-covid-brain-fog-isnt-all-in-your-head-scientists-now-know-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/10\/14\/long-covid-brain-fog-isnt-all-in-your-head-scientists-now-know-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Brain Fog Isn\u2019t \u201cAll in Your Head.\u201d Scientists Now Know the Cause."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gQlMl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long COVID Brain Fog Isn\u2019t \u201cAll in Your Head.\u201d Scientists Now Know the Cause.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This is the first study to clear the air on how COVID alters the brain.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gQlMl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Men&#8217;s Health\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>REMEMBER COVID? PLENTY\u00a0of people have already moved past the lockdowns, social distancing, and other protective measures. But for people with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/gQlMl\/https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/health\/a43264821\/long-covid-symptoms-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>long COVID<\/u><\/a>\u2014symptoms that continue to linger for months or years\u2014the pandemic isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/gQlMl\/https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/post-covid-19-condition-(long-covid)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>World Health Organization<\/u><\/a>, for every 100 people infected, 6 developed long COVID. One of the most common and debilitating symptoms was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/gQlMl\/https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/health\/a65372839\/is-it-brain-fogor-something-else\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>brain fog<\/u><\/a>\u2014severe difficulty in thinking or concentrating. For years, researchers have tried to uncover the mystery behind this debilitating symptom. And\u00a0<em>finally<\/em>\u00a0we have some answers.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/gQlMl\/https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/braincomms\/article\/7\/5\/fcaf337\/8258475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>study<\/u><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Brain Communications<\/em>\u00a0earlier this month pinpoints the first biological evidence to explain why long COVID brain fog happens, and potentially provides a new target for treatments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/gQlMl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first study to clear the air on how COVID alters the brain. REMEMBER COVID? PLENTY of people have already moved past the lockdowns, social distancing, and other protective measures. But for people with long COVID\u2014symptoms that continue to linger for months or years\u2014the pandemic isn\u2019t \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12846347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25541,26293,26294,21,1,12,26281],"tags":[26297,26296,1335,858],"class_list":{"0":"post-12846345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biotech","8":"category-covid","9":"category-health","10":"category-available","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"category-phils-favorites","13":"category-sciences","14":"tag-biotech","15":"tag-covid","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846512,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846345\/revisions\/12846512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12846347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}