Corona Citizen Research Project
Is the pandemic affecting our mental fitness?
How does COVID-19 disease alter memory performance? And what role does the psychological stress caused by the pandemic play? Brain researchers want to use an app to investigate possible effects on the brain. Citizens aged 18 and older can participate - even those who do not have COVID-19.
Exhaustion, shortness of breath, loss of smell and taste and, in severe cases, kidney or liver damage - these are possible, previously known consequences of infection with SARS-CoV-2. In the meantime, there are increasing indications that the disease can also have a negative impact on memory performance and the brain. With a long-term study, a team of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research (IKND) at the University Medical Center Magdeburg wants to get to the bottom of this question. To this end, the researchers are collecting and comparing data from COVID-19 sufferers and healthy people, which all participants provide via a smartphone app.