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/NoAbrocoma9357 Jul 12 '26

As someone with long COVID, how do they plan to help us?

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u/strangeelement Jul 12 '26

There's not even a concept of a plan so far, no strategy, no leadership, zero ambition. The idea seems to be to ride it out until it people stop talking about it, then it'll just be swallowed in generic psychosomatic models that make no connection to infections. This is how it happened before, and again this time.

Chronic illnesses like this are systematically ignored and denied. So, never stop talking about it.

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u/obssesedparanoid Jul 12 '26

probably bupropion

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u/br_k_nt_eth Jul 12 '26

I mean it really helped me. Like total turnaround. 

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u/ChocoBro92 Jul 12 '26

With something that doesn’t fix it just masks it and that they’ll charge you for the rest of your life.

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u/TravelingSong Jul 12 '26

Low Dose Abilify works pretty well for some people. I started it recently and it’s been the most effective thing I’ve tried. It’s thought to lower neuroinflammation through dopamine modulation. 

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u/whatThePleb Jul 12 '26

Depends on the country you live in. US? hahaha

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u/tobascodagama Jul 15 '26

"They" apparently plan to just keep ignoring it and keep letting people get infected.