As the pandemic progresses, researchers manage to unravel more and more mysteries COVID-19. One of them is the impact of infection which is thought to make the brain shrink.
In a report in medRxiv, University of Oxford researchers compared scanned data brain of more than 45,000 people in the UK. Researchers wanted to see if there were differences in the brains of patients or survivors of COVID-19 with the brains of people who had never been infected.
After carefully taking into account other factors, including age, gender, medical history, and socioeconomic status, researchers found the brains of survivors COVID-19 the average shrinks to be smaller. The difference is clearly said to appear in the gray matter part of the brain which contains neuron cells whose function is to process information.
Brain volume can indeed shrink due to the degeneration process. However, according to researchers brain shrinkage what happened to the survivors was more severe than in normal conditions.
Interestingly, this shrinkage can appear in both COVID-19 patients who experience severe symptoms, as well as patients with mild symptoms.
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