Researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdansk are trying to establish the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the central nervous system, and in particular on the right hemisphere of the brain. The psychologists are currently looking for volunteers to take part in the research.
“We have been conducting the project for two years now. Together we want to study more than 200 people from different age groups. We are interested in all sorts of effects of COVID-19 on various human cognitive functions, but also, for example, whether these effects are compounded by co-morbidities such as diabetes or hypertension”, says project leader Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Prof. Dr Michał Harciarek.
The research is being conducted as part of the National Science Centre-funded project ‘Does the Sars-Cov2 coronavirus primarily disrupt the function of the right cerebral hemisphere and frontal attention system? A prospective study of the neuropsychological and neurophysiological consequences of COVID-19.
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