Monday, September 12, 2022

What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving - The Atlantic

When some of those volunteers caught COVID, the team could compare their after scans to the before ones. They found that even mild infections can slightly shrink the brain and reduce the thickness of its neuron-rich gray matter. At their worst, these changes were comparable to a decade of aging. They were especially pronounced in areas such as the parahippocampal gyrus, which is important for encoding and retrieving memories, and the orbitofrontal cortex, which is important for executive function. They were still apparent in people who hadn't been hospitalized. And they were accompanied by cognitive problems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/long-covid-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/


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Review: “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’” by Robert Crawford - The New York Times

For readers partial to the daring rebel who wrote poems like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Preludes" and "The Waste Land," the trajectory this book traces may feel a bit dispiriting, like watching a favorite punk musician turn into a Lawrence Welk fan fond of Fox News.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/review/robert-crawford-eliot-after-the-waste-land.html


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After-Loss Tech Wants to Ease the Logistics of Death | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/after-loss-death-tech/


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Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality


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