I wish there was an active community for nootropics or something similar there's a lot of neuropharmacology papers I want to share

No matter how many times you’ve had COVID, it’s not too late to start wearing a mask indoors in public. N95s work really well, I’ve been attending college while masking and haven’t got sick with a single thing.

I have a running theory that symptoms like this have a lot to account for the complete decline of critical thinking and common sense. Like everything seems to have gone way downhill ever since COVID.

Makes you wonder about other viruses, no?

"The COVID vaccine, more like!"

~ Morons

I guess I won the brain damage lottery because cilantro no longer tastes soapy to me

I feel like my brain never fully recovered after COVID, and now im just slightly dumber.

Lost my sense of smell for a while. It gradually returned and some things tasted funny for some time.

Bigger problem was that I started dozing off if anything got boring. Half an hour drive to work became risky and on some days i needed ways to cause myself paint to stay focused. It lasted for 1,5 years.

I think the most disturbing thing are the small details that only you really notice, and makes you wonder what else has changed that you don't notice because your brain adjusted to it? It's like the brain fog or memory, or even the classic loss of smell. You know something's off, but it's a vague feeling and the more time passes the more your current condition seems normal, even though you know you were different once.

This tissue loss could result from reduced oxygen supply or severe immune system inflammation during the infection. Conversely, a few studies reported localized increases in gray matter volume.

Cystic fibrosis also shows an increase in gray matter in several areas of the brain, by a pretty considerable amount too. The hypothesis with CF is that it’s due to hypoxia, I wonder if this the same or similar phenomena.

I got COVID pretty badly and for a month or two after I just felt like I had no gas in my tank - I'd try to vacuum the house, for example, and I couldn't get through it in one go. I thought "Oh, this is that fatigue they've been talking about." But then that sort of wore off and I no longer lacked the energy to do stuff like that, except I just couldn't bring myself to do those things. I'd be sitting there thinking "I really need to vacuum," but it was like an insurmountable hurdle to go to the closet and get the vacuum out. Once I did, I could do the house without issue.

One of my employees had COVID about the same time as me, and we were talking about it when we were both back. Damned if she didn't start describing the same sort of psychological fatigue-like thing. I was dumbfounded.

It lasted like another couple months and slowly went away, but man it was a bitch.

As the article says, they lack pre covid data. I'd then question how they determine "abnormal behaviour"?

I guess losing ability to smell is a sign of brain damage. And eventually things get rewired with redundant, less important or new connections if possible, resulting in different scan results.

I never had taste change because of covid and had it at least 4 times now. I got it for the first time after the vaccinations though.