Eine neue Studie zur Bildgebung des Gehirns hat keine Hinweise auf eine weit verbreitete Gehirnentzündung bei Patienten gefunden, die nach einer COVID-19-Infektion unter anhaltenden Symptomen leiden. Stattdessen waren die schwersten Long-COVID-Symptome mit einer erhöhten Gehirnaktivität in Regionen verbunden, die an Stimmung und Emotionen beteiligt sind.
https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/brain-inflammation-is-unlikely-to-explain-persistent-long-covid-symptoms
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The research article is available at: [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-026-13842-w](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-026-13842-w)
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Interesting. Could this mean that long COVID is more a symptom of trauma?
never had anxiety before covid, now i deal with panic attacks and bad anxiety. its like covid flipped a switch. been trying to find a way to flip that swtich
I wonder how similar/different the results would be compared to patients with PANS and PANDAS
Ongoing brain inflammation is only one hypothesis. The most convincing mechanism is a reduction in mitochondrial function impairing aerobic metabolism. Some studies show high blood oxygenation but abnormally low uptake by the muscles. It also seems like recovery after exercise is affected with biopts showing damage to muscle cells. Other hypothetical mechanisms are micro clots, viral persistance and autoimmune processes but there’s less evidence for those.
When it comes to the limbic activation I wonder about the direction of a possible causation, it could also be that chronic pain and a low quality of life makes that part of the brain overactive and worsen the psychiatric symptoms. It’s a stretch to jump to the conclusion that this activity explains all of the symptoms
Finding nothing in science can be important but given what we already know the title is misleading. It’s amazing what you can find wrong with people with ME/ long Covid with a world class lab (see Ron Davis at Stanford) that doesn’t show up on standard tests.
ah so i may actually be right about drivers getting far worse after covid
Do it’s like the new fibromyalgia?
It tends to be people that already had high anxiety and depression. Take that for what you will.
Yeah, dysautonomia and being gaslighted will definitely traumatize you.
*The study included 14 individuals with long COVID, 11 healthy controls, and 13 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurological disease known to involve brain inflammation.*
This isnt a remotely adequate sample size from which to draw any meaningful conclusions