“Brain Fog” by COVID-19 or Alzheimer’s Disease? A Case Report

Cognitive symptoms after COVID-19 have been increasingly recognized several months after the acute infection and have been designated as “brain fog.” We report a patient with cognitive symptoms that started immediately after COVID-19, in which cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers were highly suggestive of...

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Autores principales: Matias-Guiu, Jordi A., Delgado-Alonso, Cristina, Yus, Miguel, Polidura, Carmen, Gómez-Ruiz, Natividad, Valles-Salgado, María, Ortega-Madueño, Isabel, Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves, Matias-Guiu, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8599288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803804
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.724022
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author Matias-Guiu, Jordi A.
Delgado-Alonso, Cristina
Yus, Miguel
Polidura, Carmen
Gómez-Ruiz, Natividad
Valles-Salgado, María
Ortega-Madueño, Isabel
Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves
Matias-Guiu, Jorge
author_facet Matias-Guiu, Jordi A.
Delgado-Alonso, Cristina
Yus, Miguel
Polidura, Carmen
Gómez-Ruiz, Natividad
Valles-Salgado, María
Ortega-Madueño, Isabel
Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves
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description Cognitive symptoms after COVID-19 have been increasingly recognized several months after the acute infection and have been designated as “brain fog.” We report a patient with cognitive symptoms that started immediately after COVID-19, in which cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers were highly suggestive of Alzheimer’s disease. Our case highlights the need to examine patients with cognitive symptoms following COVID-19 comprehensively. A detailed assessment combining clinical, cognitive, and biomarker studies may help disentangle the underlying mechanisms associated with cognitive dysfunction in each case. The investigation of neurodegenerative processes in an early stage, especially in older patients, is probably warranted.
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spelling pubmed-85992882021-11-19 “Brain Fog” by COVID-19 or Alzheimer’s Disease? A Case Report Matias-Guiu, Jordi A. Delgado-Alonso, Cristina Yus, Miguel Polidura, Carmen Gómez-Ruiz, Natividad Valles-Salgado, María Ortega-Madueño, Isabel Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves Matias-Guiu, Jorge Front Psychol Psychology Cognitive symptoms after COVID-19 have been increasingly recognized several months after the acute infection and have been designated as “brain fog.” We report a patient with cognitive symptoms that started immediately after COVID-19, in which cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers were highly suggestive of Alzheimer’s disease. Our case highlights the need to examine patients with cognitive symptoms following COVID-19 comprehensively. A detailed assessment combining clinical, cognitive, and biomarker studies may help disentangle the underlying mechanisms associated with cognitive dysfunction in each case. The investigation of neurodegenerative processes in an early stage, especially in older patients, is probably warranted. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8599288/ /pubmed/34803804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.724022 Text en Copyright © 2021 Matias-Guiu, Delgado-Alonso, Yus, Polidura, Gómez-Ruiz, Valles-Salgado, Ortega-Madueño, Cabrera-Martín and Matias-Guiu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Matias-Guiu, Jordi A.
Delgado-Alonso, Cristina
Yus, Miguel
Polidura, Carmen
Gómez-Ruiz, Natividad
Valles-Salgado, María
Ortega-Madueño, Isabel
Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves
Matias-Guiu, Jorge
“Brain Fog” by COVID-19 or Alzheimer’s Disease? A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8599288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803804
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.724022
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