Covid and Alzheimer’s disease
One evening last week, I started coughing a bit. I dismissed it as due to my persistent allergies. A few hours later I felt awful. I had a bad headache, shaking chills, and a temperature...
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The woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease
Joy Milne is a 72-year-old retired nurse from Perth, Scotland, who has had an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell, called hyperosmia, all of her life. In some ways it has been a curse. She...
What about COVID in those who already have Alzheimer’s disease?
In a previous post I described recent research showing that patients with even mild COVID have shrinkage of several brain areas associated with olfaction and memory. We don’t know yet if these changes to the...
Mild COVID has now been shown to be associated with shrinkage of specific brain regions
In an important new study published yesterday in Nature and described in a more accessible form today in the New York Times, researchers studied MRI scans of 785 participants in the UK Biobank. All of these volunteers had...
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