Previous COVID-19 associated with lack of oxygen saturation in brain during cognitive tests: study
The results shed new light on how COVID-19 impacts the brain, with serious implications for the field of long COVID."We are the first to show reduced oxygen uptake in the brain during a cognitive task in the months following a symptomatic COVID-19 infection," Dr. Peter Hall, researcher in the School of Public Health Sciences at Waterloo and lead author of the study, said in a press release.
Although there were no clear associations with reaction time and a history of COVID-19, that wasn't the case for the other two tests. The survey which made up the second portion of the larger study looked at 2,000 Canadians between the ages of 18 to 56 years old, and asked respondents about their history with COVID-19, as well as cognitive performance and psychiatric symptoms that they had experienced in 2021 and 2022.
Hall added that in the results of the laboratory study, older women experienced less oxygen saturation during the cognitive tests than any other group in connection to previous cases of COVID-19. It's a test to evaluate how well and how quickly the brain can shut out distractions, with both accuracy and speed as measurements.
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