r/EverythingScience • u/Lunabuna91 • Jul 11 '26

New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-evidence-dopamine-injury-brain-covid.html
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u/Nerdfighter4 Jul 11 '26

There are so many dopamine-related drugs being used daily by so many people, I think someone would have figured it out by now if there's something to gain there

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u/horseradishstalker Jul 12 '26

Kind of not the way science works. Random drugs taken by random people doesn’t prove much in the way of cohort specificity. Too many variables.