A motion-sensor video game allows patients recovering from a stroke to improve their motor skills and affected arm movements at home while checking in periodically with a therapist via telehealth.
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Since she fell ill with COVID-19 around Thanksgiving, Pamela Furr has been waiting for her old self to return. A radio news anchor in Tennessee for more than 10 years, she now sometimes finds herself stuck midsentence grasping for simple words; she is prone to forget events and conversations if she doesn’t write them down. “I’m not the same person that I was before COVID,” she says. “I kind of miss me.”
The true prevalence of cognitive problems in COVID-19 survivors is elusive, and the underlying causes of lingering symptoms are the subject of ongoing studies. But it’s now clear that trouble thinking, concentrating, and remembering can be among the most debilitating “long-haul” symptoms and can persist for months. As more and more people seek help to overcome their brain fog at clinics set up for post–COVID-19 care, researchers and physicians are turning to treatments developed for stroke and traumatic brain injuries. And a few are setting out to test cognitive training video games they hope will expand the reach of therapy.
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Post-COVID âbrain fogâ research at UAB seeking volunteers
UAB doctors working on treatment for COVID 'brain fog' By Cassie Fambro | February 24, 2021 at 9:59 PM CST - Updated February 24 at 9:59 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Medical professionals are learning more about the lingering effects of COVID-19, and one of them is something called brain fog.
You know that feeling when you have a sleepless night and canât seem to get it together the next day? Itâs like that.
Researchers are finding out that the brain is not exempt from the effects of COVID-19.
âThere is growing evidence that the virus attacks brain tissue,â said Dr. Gitendra Uswatte, a professor at UAB.
Clinical trial at UAB studying way to clear âbrain fogâ from COVID-19 (Source: Pexels) By WBRC Staff | February 23, 2021 at 5:23 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 5:26 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - âBrain fogâ is what doctors call a change in cognitive function many COVID-19 patients experience as a long-term effect from the virus. The fog is marked by memory problems and a struggle to think clearly. A new clinical trial at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is testing a rehabilitation method to remedy the problem.
A report on 120 patients in France, published in October 2020, found that more than a third had memory loss and 27 percent had cognitive difficulties months after recovering from COVID-19. In another study, a hospital network in Chicago reported that, among 509 patients, nearly a third experienced altered mental function; of these, 68 percent were unable to handle routine daily activities such as cooking or paying bills.
Researchers say many COVID patients have experienced symptoms such as memory loss, and difficulty thinking clearly for months after recovering from the initial illness.