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Your Brain Looks Different If You Have ME/CFS or Long COVID.

A study published this month used advanced MRI to map microstructural brain changes in ME/CFS and Long COVID and the findings are hard to dismiss.

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Aug 05, 2026
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Today let’s decode a study published just two weeks ago in Frontiers in Medicine that did something quietly significant. It took patients with ME/CFS and patients with Long COVID, gave them an MRI and used two different advanced imaging techniques to look at the microscopic structure of their brain tissue. Not function, not blood flow, not activation patterns, but the actual physical integrity of the tissue itself.

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