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"significant word retrieval difficulties"

Many of us have commented on the fact that people's ability to ✨ remember words 💫 is markedly worse after COVID-19

If you watch home videos from the 2010s it's exceedingly rare for someone to get stuck trying to remember a word

nowadays, try and have a 30 min conversation without it happening

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reporting on results from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 which I haven't read

MastodonAugie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social)Study: "These findings reveal significant word retrieval difficulties in PCS (Post #COVID19 Syndrome) patients, suggesting that cognitive impairment related to language may be more pronounced than previously understood. PCS patients demonstrated significantly poorer performance compared with controls across all verbal fluency tasks. Notably, younger patients performed worse than older, a paradoxical trend also observed in previous research." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.13118
#COVID#COVID19#COVIDIsNotOver
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@datum I mention this since so many Long Covid (aka, post Covid) folks meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS:

Many folks with ME/CFS also have some kind of cognitive impairment, aka, brain fog. It's part of the diagnostic criteria (see attached image) but it's not a requirement.

Word finding has always been a huge problem for me!

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, chronic, debilitating disease. The disease is identified by three required symptoms and at least one of two additional symptoms. 1. The reduced ability to perform pre-illness activities that lasts for more than 6 months. This reduced ability is accompanied by profound fatigue not improved by rest. 2. Post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM is a hallmark of ME/CFS with symptoms that worsen after physical, mental, or emotional effort. 3. Unrefreshing sleep. Orthostatic intolerance and/or cognitive impairment must also be present. Symptoms are present for half the time, with moderate to severe intensity and functional impairment. Many patients have multiple symptoms, in different systems. Long COVID brings greater attention to ME/CFS, as both illnesses share many of the same symptoms.
#COVID#LongCovid#PASC
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