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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.

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. 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.” Th...

Post-COVID ‘brain fog’ 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 can’t seem to get it together the next day? It’s like that. Resear...

Clinical trial at UAB studying way to clear ‘brain fog’ 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) - “Brain fog” 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 test...

Researchers say many COVID patients have experienced symptoms such as memory loss, and difficulty thinking clearly for months after recovering from the initial illness.