[slavboj]

It's quite possible that the causality goes the other direction, and a baseline population of brain disorders is being ascribed to the last notable thing that happened to them (which has also happened to ~ the entire population at this point).

[freddie_mercury]

Not really, since the survey paper notes that the EEG pathologies were detected in 69-96% of patients, including children.

It is not plausible to propose that 69-96% of patients, including children, had undetected brain disorders and that was the direction of causality.

[hedora]

That’d only be true if the study population was a random sample of the general population.

If they’re only testing people with symptoms, the causality could easily go either way.

[jna_sh]

The U.K. BioBank study should put this to rest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5

These are participants whose health is being followed long term. They had brain scans before and after COVID, and abnormalities were detected in the scans post-COVID.