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By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaJun 28 2023Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers assess neuropsychological deficits among individuals with persistent symptoms of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection.
Cognitive impairments have also been reported in COVID-19, regardless of disease severity, and could be due to the direct effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the central nervous system or indirect CNS involvement and the associated multi-organ damage, generalized inflammation, hypoxia, or immunological dysregulation.
Related StoriesRandom-effects modeling was performed to analyze the cognitive performance of post-COVID-19 patients and healthy individuals. The I2 statistic was used to assess heterogeneity in the included studies. Sensitivity analyses were also performed to determine whether excluding individual studies could impact the results.
Conference presentation abstracts and studies comprising individuals with a history of pathologies that could impact cognitive function, including neurodegenerative illnesses, acquired brain damage, and neuropsychiatric disorders, were also excluded.
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