Brain Fog

Information from Nottinghamshire Healthcare

Brain Fog Session 1

This booklet provides information and strategies to enable you to manage your Post Covid Brain Fog. It covers the first of the two brain fog sessions. It covers:

• The usual symptoms of Brain Fog
• Some possible causes of Brain Fog
• Ideas to help to manage Brain Fog 

Brain Fog Session 2

This booklet provides information and strategies to enable you to manage your Post Covid Brain Fog. It covers the information relating to the second Brain Fog session, including:

An overview of 3 of the main cognitive processes affected by Brain Fog:

• attention and concentration,
• memory
• language and word processing.

A selection of strategies to help to manage/reduce the impact of brain fog in these areas.

 

Useful links from other sources

Brain Training Apps:

• Lumosity: A popular app for brain training. It offers a variety of games that are based on scientific research to help improve cognitive function. There are free versions available for Apple and Android, as well as options for paid subscriptions.
• Peak: If you want a problem-solving app with activities that don't require much time, the Peak app has more than 30 mini games. It is available for both Apple and Android devices.
• Braingle: Offers a wide variety of options to test and train your cognitive abilities, with more than 15,000 brain teasers, riddles, logic, mind puzzles, according to the product's site. It's a bit more simple and light-hearted than other problem-solving sites. 
• Elevate: The Elevate app lets you pick a more systematic way of training your brain to be better at problem-solving. You can select from 3-5 games each day, and track your performance over time to meet your goals. 
• Cognifit: If you are interested in a more advanced problem-solving app, Cognifit is tailored to both individuals and professionals. In addition to cognitive science-based mini games that train your brain to be better at problem-solving, it also offers neuropsychological assessments.
• Fit Brains Trainer: This app claims to help you to think faster, with more than 360 games and puzzles that get harder as you improve. The app tracks your performance and will make recommendations based on your progress. 
• Eidetic: Want to be able to memorize phone numbers or birthdays? Eidetic uses facts you have entered yourself - such as your parents' phone numbers - and periodically tests you to help you memorize them. 

 

Cognitive Dysfunction in ME/CFS and Long Covid

Article written by the ME Society around brain fog in ME / CFS and Long Covid