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New Study Provides First Evidence of Dopamine System Injury in the Brain of Long COVID Patients (www.camh.ca)
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Findings have important implications for the pathophysiology of key COVID symptoms and suggest new potential avenues for treatment

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[–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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    Long Covid is an umbrella disorder for lasting impacts of COVID, but the more debilitating outcomes that tend to get the attention in news articles are ME/CFS and autonomic disorders like POTS. Neither resemble encephalitis lethargica. New research into ME/CFS points to problems with neurons in the brain, but it’s not clear that symptoms are the result of irreversible damage. Patients sometimes go into remission and more commonly can regain some lost function with time and rest.

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