Covid-19 may have small but lasting impact on brain function, study suggests

Results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed “small deficits” in the cognitive performance of people who had recovered from covid-19, when compared with those who had not had the disease

Researchers have been studying covid’s long-term effect on people’s brains (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Covid-19 may have a small but lasting impact on people’s thinking and memory skills more than a year after infection, a study suggests.

More than 140,000 people in the UK took online tests to measure the changes in different aspects of their brain function including concentration, reasoning, memory, spatial planning and other skills, between August and December 2022.