Prof Masud Husain researches cognitive effects following mild COVID

Professor Masud Husain is part of a team that has found that attention and memory deficits persist for months after recovery from mild COVID. 

The research team, from Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Experimental Psychology, found that people who have had COVID but don't complain of long COVID symptoms in daily life can still show degraded attention and memory for as long as six to nine months afterwards. 

'We still do not understand the mechanisms that cause these cognitive deficits, but it is very encouraging to see that these attention and memory impairments return largely to normal in most people we tested by 6-9 months after infection, who demonstrated good recovery over time.'

- Professor Masud Husain

Read the full article from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.