Cognitive Impacts of COVID-19
2021-07-24 00:49:37.704635+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
RT Prof. Christina Pagel @chrischirp
LONG COVID THREAD:
The people running the BBC Horizon "Great British Intelligence Test" challenge on over 80,000 people took the opportunity to see if they could detect any differences by whether people had had covid or not...
The Lancet: EClinicalMedicine: Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101044
Findings People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.