Cognitive Impairment in Long COVID - Excerpt from Research Developments in Long COVID Webinar

Summary:

The Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation in Toronto focuses on helping individuals with cognitive difficulties, primarily stemming from mood disorders, but has recently shifted attention to Long COVID's cognitive effects.
The researcher has a background in psychiatry and has found links between depression, brain fog, fatigue, and the immune system.
Long COVID, also referred to as post-COVID condition or syndrome, affects a significant percentage of COVID-19 survivors, with symptoms ranging from fatigue to cognitive dysfunction.
Fatigue in Long COVID may be linked to disturbances in the reward system within the human brain, particularly involving dopamine circuitry.
The foundation is conducting a study using the medicine "Vortioxetine", typically used in psychiatry, that has shown potential in improving cognition, motivation, and reward, and has anti-inflammatory effects, to treat Long COVID symptoms.