Thursday, 18 February 2021, 6:35 am
The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation (CMRF) is
funding a $213,000 research project on the ongoing impact of
‘quake brain’ on people’s memory and other cognitive
functions crucial to everyday life.
The study builds
on evidence of ‘quake brain’ already gathered by a
University of Otago psychological research team. They found
significant impairment in memory and other cognitive
functions such as emotional processing in Cantabrians who
experienced disruptions because of the quakes but described
themselves as being ‘resilient’. This ‘resilient’
group experienced ‘moderate to severe’ impacts as a
result of the quakes – such as loss of income, witnessing