{"id":1993,"date":"2026-07-24T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/long-covid-brain-scans-reveal-damage-to-dopamine-neurons\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:49:02","slug":"long-covid-brain-scans-reveal-damage-to-dopamine-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/long-covid-brain-scans-reveal-damage-to-dopamine-neurons\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Brain Scans Reveal Damage to Dopamine Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/long-covid-brain-scans-reveal-damage-to-dopamine-neurons\/\" title=\"Long COVID Brain Scans Reveal Damage to Dopamine Neurons\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Coronavirus-Brain-Mental-Health-Long-COVID-777x518.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Coronavirus Brain Mental Health Long COVID\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>New PET imaging findings suggest that some of long COVID\u2019s most disabling symptoms may stem from disruption of the brain\u2019s dopamine system. For many people with long COVID, the infection ends but the exhaustion, slowed thinking, memory problems, and loss of motivation do not. Researchers have struggled to explain why these symptoms persist because the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New PET imaging findings suggest that some of long COVID\u2019s most disabling symptoms may stem from disruption of the brain\u2019s dopamine system. For many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}