A lot of research has been done on the virus during the pandemic period caused by the COVID-19 virus. The damage caused by the virus, which has caused many loss of life and damage worldwide, is always being examined by scientists and doctors. It has been proven by scientific research that COVID-19 damages the body in many different ways, especially the lungs. .
As a result of a study that did not pass peer-review and was made accessible on the MedRxiv website, it was determined that patients infected with the virus had shrinkage in their brains, even if they survived the disease mildly. For this study, the researchers analyzed brain imaging data from 45,000 people recorded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and those diagnosed with COVID-19 were recalled for additional screening.
The frontal and temporal lobes are thinner in those who have had the virus.
The data were also compared with brain scans of people who had not been infected, to understand what changes in the brains of people who were called back for the study before and after they contracted the virus. Individuals’ age, gender, and health-related variables and socioeconomic conditions were also carefully matched.
In the tissue called gray matter, which consists of neurons that process information in the brain, significant differences were observed between those infected with the virus and those who were not. The thickness of gray matter tissue in brain areas known as the frontal and temporal lobes was thinner in the COVID-19 group than in the other group. While it’s normal for the general population to change in gray matter volume over time as people age, the changes observed in this study were much larger than normal in people infected with the virus, according to experts.
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