Is FDG‐PET metabolism associated with cognitive performance in long‐Covid patients?
Micaela A Hernández, Luiza Santos Machado, Marco De Bastiani, Thomas Hugentobler Schlickmann, João Pedro Ferrari‐Souza, Agostina Carello, Belén Helou, Lucia Crivelli, Emilia Osa Sanz, Yanina Bérgamo, Silvia Vazquez, Gustavo Sevlever, Ricardo Allegri, Eduardo R Zimmer, Ismael Luis Calandri · 2025
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Micaela A Hernández and co-authors ask whether brain energy use, pictured with FDG-PET scans, tracks thinking problems in people with long Covid. Many patients report lasting trouble with memory and focus months after infection, but the brain changes behind those complaints are unclear. The team scanned 41 Argentine patients who had reported such complaints for at least a month and tested them across seven areas of thinking.
By grouping the scans, they found patterns in which memory-related regions ran low on energy use while frontal regions stayed near normal. The study then compares thinking scores between these scan groups to see whether the pattern matches the complaints. Work of this kind aims to give long Covid's brain fog a firmer physical footing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Micaela A Hernández, Luiza Santos Machado, Marco De Bastiani, Thomas Hugentobler Schlickmann, João Pedro Ferrari‐Souza, Agostina Carello, Belén Helou, Lucia Crivelli, Emilia Osa Sanz, Yanina Bérgamo, Silvia Vazquez, Gustavo Sevlever, Ricardo Allegri, Eduardo R Zimmer, Ismael Luis Calandri |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |