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Covid-19 and your brain: new research

MANY South Africans will be aware that the stress of the Covid-19 pandemic, the earlier lockdown and ongoing restrictions associated with it, can potentially have an impact on mental wellness and may have been advised on what they could do to mitigate it.

But what of those who are actually infected by the virus: can the infection have an impact on the brain and result in mental conditions such as depression?

Mental health practitioners have for some time

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