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Neurological Impacts of Long COVID: An Overview

Increasingly, more studies have evidenced that Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), widely known as Long Covid, can greatly impair an individual’s neurology, resulting in a plethora of challenges and uncertainties. A summary of the symptoms are included below.

Key Symptoms indicated Long COVID has impacted individuals neurologically

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Cognitive impairment

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Functional disturbances

Difficulty concentrating, challenges with memory and clarity in thoughts is grouped under cognitive impairment. Studies which involved neuroimaging of patients with Long Covid concluded that structural changes in the brain’s grey and white matter, particularly in regions associated with memory and sensory processing have occurred suggesting a direct impact on ‘neural networks’ thus leading to aforementioned impairments in these individual’s cognitive thinking.

Functional disturbances, which include symptoms such as chronic headaches and/or migraines, dizziness, and sensory issues also allude to ongoing nervous system dysfunction.

Autoimmune responses add a layer of complexity, as the immune system may continue to attack the body’s tissues, including the nervous system, contributing to the neurologic symptoms associated with Long Covid.

Attomarker Covid Antibody Spectrum Test

Adding Insight into the Immunology

Behind the Science

We have developed a Spectrum Test, only requiring a fingerprick of blood, that we believe could be used in targeting treatments for Long Covid patients. It is now CA marked, and although it is not currently available on the NHS, the good news is that this promising new test should shortly be available and any subsequent treatment can be arranged privately with an appropriate clinician, if necessary on a named patient basis. Your antibody immunity spectrum should provide valuable information to your clinician, who may seek to identify your endotype (your personalised response to this disease state). The immunity spectrum could then inform a possible treatment in discussion with your doctor (please keep in mind that some drugs may be expensive).

There are a number of NHS and private clinics specialising in Long COVID in the UK for example, including these collated on this site: https://www.topdoctors.co.uk/doctor/long-covid/.

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SOURCES:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685075/#:~:text=The%20outline%20of%20these%20abnormalities,SARS%2DCoV%2D2%20infection

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864843/

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