‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition. Five years after the pandemic began, research shows that the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some of these cognitive losses may extend to people who quickly recovered.

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Certain sounds associated with illness—like coughing 🤧 and sniffling 🤧—may interfere with learning by distracting people during educational tasks. The human brain may be particularly sensitive to cues that signal the presence of disease, which could divert attention away from other tasks.

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Long-term exposure to air pollution from traffic, industry, and wildfires linked to to worse cognitive function and small but visible brain damage, with higher effects observed in women

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🧠 Study of 54 participants over 4 months reveals LLM use may decrease learning skills, with participants performing worse than those using only search engines or no tools.

📊 Brain activity (EEG) showed LLM users had weaker neural connectivity, reflecting less cognitive engagement compared to search engine or "brain-only" groups.

✍️ LLM users reported low ownership of their essays and had difficulty recalling their own writing, unlike those who used search engines or wrote independently.

⏳ Preliminary results suggest a "cognitive cost" to LLM use in essay writing, impacting neural, linguistic, and scoring performance over a 4-month study period.

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A urinary tract infection that follows a moderate brain injury can worsen cognitive problems caused by the injury, new research in mice shows. The study is the first to examine neuroimmune and cognitive effects of a post-brain injury bladder infection in an animal model.

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