cognitive dysfunction

• Neuropsychological and neurophysiological features of fatigue were studied in post-COVID-19 patients. • Apathy, deficits in executive functions and reduction in global cognition were found. • Abnormal shortening of cortical silent period and lack of MEP depression were demonstrated after a...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03160-0

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00620/full Effects of Trazodone on Sleep Quality and Cognitive Function in Arteriosclerotic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Comorbid With Chronic Insomnia

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163725820302473 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.pharmthera.2020.107716

My thanks to rvallee for pointing out that "brain fog" has no medical name and therefore no proper, medical recognition. I seem to have internalized the fact so deeply that the obvious had escaped me. The "fog" has been, for me, as bad as the lead overalls. If I could just stay in but still...

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.00969/full

via Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks

Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2020.00688/full

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-020-05118-z

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23166694/ Alison Beaumont 1, Alexander R Burton, Jim Lemon, Barbara K Bennett, Andrew Lloyd, Uté Vollmer-Conna Free PMC article Abstract Background: Cognitive difficulties and autonomic dysfunction have been reported separately in patients with chronic fatigue...

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/08/theres-no-point-in-me-having-a-netflix-subscription-or-an-audible-account-by-anna-wood-07-august-2019/

Moderator note: new thread started from post in this existing thread. https://www.s4me.info/threads/plunging-grant-application-rates-test-nih’s-commitment-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-cfs.8696/page-5#post-154200 Wow. I can relate to so much of this. My existence used to be synthesising...

Havana Syndrome: U.S. and Canadian diplomats targeted with possible weapon causing brain injury and neurological symptoms CBS News/60 Minutes main story/video https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-trauma-suffered-by-u-s-diplomats-abroad-could-be-work-of-hostile-foreign-government-60-minutes/ CBS...

Overall, how would you describe the effect that cognitive dysfunction (“brain fog”) has on your ability to function on a day-to-day basis? Constant and severely disabling Constant and moderately disabling Constant and mildly disabling Varies between moderate and severe Varies between mild and...

Chemicals 'repair damaged neurons in mice' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47234787 2 studies on mice First is on leaky brain barrier and inflammation

Cortical hypoactivation during resting EEG suggests central nervous system pathology in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome M.A.Zinn, M.L.Zinn, I.Valencia, L.A.Jason, J.G.Montoya https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.05.016 sci-hub link...

Read more: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2008/792428/ This is an old-ish study, bit has some interesting ideas about neurological conditions. Though it doesn't mention ME directly, three of the references used to support the argument deal with 'CFS'. The theory goes that interrupted VNs...