New Study Provides First Evidence of Dopamine System Injury in the Brain of Long COVID Patients
Findings have important implications for the pathophysiology of key COVID symptoms and suggest new potential avenues for treatment
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In other words, the exact same secondary effect seen after the Flu pandemic 1918-20. People came down with encephalitis lethargica until the 1930s. Dopamine receptors were wiped out. The treatment was L-dopa, but not until 1961.
This sounds very interesting. Could you say a bit more/point to a good source to read more?
This has to be bittersweet for people with chronic fatigue syndrome or other post viral chronic conditions that are not long covid. On the one hand, it's great that these conditions that have been just brushed aside for so long are finally getting some answers. On the other hand, limiting the research to just "long covid" continues to deny the fact that these symptoms have been known to be caused by a plethora of very common illnesses, and will likely limit care for that population.
As someone with ME, I'm mostly glad to see the research because we all know that they're basically the same disease.
Not bad. I swear my cognitive functions have declined since contracting COVID, but it's hard to prove and my GP blames it on age.
GPs are PFU.
Great to hear about this. Does anyone know what medications boost the dopamine pathways since that was one of the venues mentioned in the article?
Drugs used for Parkinson's.
Levodopa, or L-dopa.