COVID may impact your cognitive abilities a year or more after infection, study finds
A new study suggests that COVID-19 can impact cognitive function a year or more after people have contracted the virus. The study enrolled more than 140,000 participants and assessed the cognitive and memory abilities of individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 compared to those who had not been infected. Study participants were tasked with completing an online cognitive evaluation using a platform called Cognitron. The tasks were designed to identify nuanced changes to cognition such as memory, reasoning, attention, and impulsivity. “The potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on cognitive...