<\/figure>\nCOURTNEY SHUKIS was looking forward to lunch: she had just recovered from covid-19 and was glad to be meeting her friends again. Before leaving her home in Plano, Texas, she checked the calendar, making a mental note of the restaurant and when to meet. \u201cBut instead of going there, I got in my car and drove to a completely different place,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI sat at the table for half an hour, looking at my phone, wondering where everyone was. My brain fog was really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t a one-off. After having covid-19, Shukis had frequent episodes of memory loss. She would forget to make dinner, had trouble finding the words to describe things and got confused about school pick-up times. \u201cI had never had any difficulties with these kinds of things before. It just felt like my brain wasn\u2019t working right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shukis is one of millions of people worldwide reporting a severe dent in cognitive functioning following a covid-19 infection, and as a result, the issue of brain fog has been thrust into the limelight. For many, this is long overdue. \u201cIt\u2019s something that patients with a wide variety of different medical problems have said has interfered with their ability to function for a long time,\u201d says Sabina Brennan, a neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and author of Beating Brain Fog<\/i>. The hope is that this interest could improve care for those experiencing it. \u201cIf there\u2019s anything positive to come out of the covid-19 pandemic, it\u2019s that the spotlight is now on brain fog and the scientific community is paying much more attention to it,\u201d says Brennan.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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