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Topic Reading-Vol.3623-3/13/2022

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2022/03/13 Topic Reading-Vol.3623-3/13/2022

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Scans reveal how Covid may change the brain

It has been reported that many people who contracted the Covid experienced loss or impaired sense of smell and taste, especially by the original or early variants like Delta. This could be explained by recent research of 400 individuals who had had mild Covid. Researchers compared the brain’s magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before and after the infection and found that the brain size shrunk as much as 2%. Those losses were found in grey matter in the parts related to smell and memory. It is still unclear if the loss is permanent or all variants of the virus cause the same damage. This still sounds awful for those who contracted the disease even the symptoms were mild. However, the researcher stressed that the brain can heal itself so that the harmful effects of infection could ease or heal. For example, those who caught Covid and lost the sense of smell can regain the sense after training.

Read the article and learn about the damage to the brain by Covid.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60591487

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