You are not alone if you are feeling tired, fuzzy, or unmotivated. Stress related to the COVID-19 coronaviruses and the Pandemic can affect your mental and physical health for a long time. Turns out, our bodies were not meant to have high levels of stress for long periods of time. Allostatic load is caused by wear and tear on our bodies and can include symptoms like depression, irregular menstrual cycles, and an increased susceptibility to disease. When you're chronically stressed, you can see what happens in your brain. According to an Oxford University study, COVID-19 can damage the brain in subtle ways. An extra 1 to 10 years of aging correspond to the changes that can impair cognitive function. It is not clear how much the damages can be reversed. A new, years-long study of hundreds of older adults in the UK suggests that getting COVID-19 can damage the brain and affect the health of brain tissue. The brain changes seen after coronaviruses infections were subtle. The brain differences were still statistically significant, even though more than 85% of the COVID-positive patients had mild or asymptomatic infections which didn't require hospitalization. We are not talking about gross pathology, that a neuroradiologist would be able to immediately identify looking at the scans, and we are talking about subtle differences of 0.2 to 2%. The only reason the researchers were able to pick out the differences was because they scanned the brains of the 785 study participants twice, once before the pandemic began, and again in early 2021, after about half of them had been exposed to the disease. She said that the differences in the brains of people who have been exposed to the virus may be equivalent to 10 years of aging. Older patients in the study had their ability to perform complex tasks impaired by the infections. It is quite a scary result because 98% of our participants had mild infections. 4% of the study participants were ill enough to be hospitalized. The study shows that the severity of a COVID-19 infection isn't necessarily the same for younger patients. The participants in this study were all scanned during the first year of the Pandemic, before Delta and Omicron emerged, and likely before any of them werevaccinated. Many people who were exposed to the virus lost their sense of smell and taste, and that was reflected in this study as the researchers saw the biggest changes in the corresponding olfactory areas of their brains. There were some global changes in the size of the brain, which had shrunk a bit more. The Trail Making Test is an exercise that is used to measure executive functioning and cognitive decline, and people who have had COVID-19 scored lower than their peers. The director of the advanced neuroimaging research program at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine was not involved in the study. She said that they can get a better picture of what is happening post-infection and whether or not the changes in the brain were caused by the infection. Some scientists think that brain changes in people with mild infections are caused by COVID-19. It may be that the symptoms of COVID-19, such as losing the sense of smell, cause the brain to turn off or shrink the olfactory-related brain regions. Some researchers think that the changes are a result of brain inflammation or the virus invading the brain. Some combination of these factors could be an alternative explanation. The ability of the brain to grow, rearrange, and heal itself over time may play a role in reversing some of the damage done to the brain due to the viral. 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