APS

2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024

Event-Related Brain Potentials Reveal Neurological Slowing Following COVID-19 Infection

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

  • Kaitlyn Dal Bon
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Spero Nicholas
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Susanna Fryer
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Daniel Mathalon
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Lynn Pulliam
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Judith Ford
    University of California, San Francisco

Abstract

We asked if EEG-based event-related potentials show neural impairment in individuals who report COVID-related worsening of memory, attention, and anxiety/depression(NeuroCOVID, n=35) compared to those with no persisting COVID sequelae(COVID controls, n=13) and pre-pandemic controls(n=84). Neural responses are slowed in both NeuroCOVID and CovidControls, with NeuroCOVID having additional motor slowing.

Epidemics and Public Health

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