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Chronic sinus inflammation appears to alter brain activity

Courtesy of Dr. Aria Jafari Magnetic resonance imaging scans whose crosshairs are fixed on a patient’s nasal septum. The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also commonly struggle to focus, and experience depression and other symptoms that implicate the brain’s involvement in their illness. New research links sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity, specifically with the neural networks that modulate cognition, introspection and response to external stimuli. “This is the first study that links chronic sinus inflammation with a neurobiological change,” said lead author Dr. Aria Jafari, a surgeon and assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Study links chronic sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity

Study links chronic sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also commonly struggle to focus, and experience depression and other symptoms that implicate the brain s involvement in their illness. New research links sinus inflammation with alterations in brain activity, specifically with the neural networks that modulate cognition, introspection and response to external stimuli. The paper was published today in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. This is the first study that links chronic sinus inflammation with a neurobiological change. We know from previous studies that patients who have sinusitis often decide to seek medical care not because they have a runny nose and sinus pressure, but because the disease is affecting how they interact with the world: They can t be productive, thinking is difficult, sleep is lousy. It broadly impacts their quality of life.

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