Thread by @1goodtern

🚨Yet another study with significant implications.

"Mild COVID-19 disrupts brain connectivity and reduces memory function in *adolescents and young adults*"

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news-medical.net/news/20241003/…

Really important to note that these are young adults.
Late teens, early twenties.

Imagine if you ran this study on people in their 50s or 60s.

Patterns of damage to: the right intracalcarine cortex, right lingual gyrus, left hippocampus, left amygdala, left frontal orbital cortex.

CHANGES TO THESE PARTS OF THE BRAIN CHANGE WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU ARE.

The left front orbital cortex affects how we respond to rewards and social cues, and is nvolved in choices, emotion regulation, and social behavior.

The left amygdala is central to processing fear, pleasure, and emotional memories, and regulates ups, and positive emotions.

The left hippocampus plays a key role in forming and navigating memories, especially verbal memory and learning.

The right lingual gyrus helps process verbal memory and learning, and plays a role in visual memory and letter/word perception.

And the right intercalcarine cortex is key for recognizing faces, objects, and complex visuals, and processing visual info and visual perception.

"In conclusion, the findings indicate persistent structural and functional alterations in specific brain regions of COVID-19-positive adolescents and young adults, including changes in gray matter volume and localized functional connectivity."

So.
When you see a huge leap in cases of anxiety and depression.

When you read someone saying that people are having difficulty caring.

When you read about increased numbers of motorcycle crashes.

When you read about people with memory problems.

When you encounter people having difficulty regulating emotion.

Know that there's a possibility it has something to do with all this covid infections they've suffered.

This all just breaks my heart.