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The long road back: Implications of Covid-19 for language and cognition

17 Dec 2020

Research

Recovering from Covid-19 can be a long battle...

In this blog of Cambridge University Press, our Prof. Louise Cummings, who is a clinical linguist, explained that new cognitive-linguistic impairment (BrainFog) was reported in people with Long Covid, and their language and cognitive skills have been adversely affected.

People who are in recovery from Covid-19 report ‘brain fog’, significant memory loss, and difficulty concentrating. Some also describe having difficulty remembering the names of people and things during conversation. If these impairments become chronic in people with Long Covid, speech-language pathology and neuropsychology investigations will be required.

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