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moniquepost.bsky.social @moniquepost.bsky.social · Sep 11

Great to be at the 14th @autismeurope.bsky.social International Conference in Dublin and hear the opening speeches sharing common hopes on the impact it can have for the international community.
#AEcongress2025

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Autism-Europe @autismeurope.bsky.social · Sep 11

Good morning from Dublin! We're so excited for Day 1 of the #AECongress2025. Come say hello! 👋

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moniquepost.bsky.social @moniquepost.bsky.social · May 29

So if #longcovid has been linked to reactivation of latent viruses+risk of new infection, it makes sense that there can be neuro degenerative risks. Not comforting at all for people with LC. @putrinolab.bsky.social @virusesimmunity.bsky.social
www.psypost.org/a-common-chi...

A common childhood virus could be silently fueling Alzheimer's disease in old age

A virus best known for causing cold sores may dramatically increase the risk of Alzheimer’s in people with a specific gene variant. New evidence suggests herpes reactivation in the brain may trigger t...

www.psypost.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 6

How Covid can affect the brain—the central role of blood vessel inflammation and microglia—and impact on body-wide inflammation @natureneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graphic that delineates the processes from 11 patient post-mortem studies (10 patients were unvaccinated)

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · Mar 6

Children & young people with #LongCovid have important questions—insightful & often heartbreaking ones.
We’ve received so many questions from young people ahead of our event with Dr. @buonsenso.bsky.social, and they remind us why listening is just as important as taking action.

#LongCovidAwareness

Questions from CYP (Children and Young People) 'How do I convince school that it's not just anxiety?'

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moniquepost.bsky.social @moniquepost.bsky.social · Feb 25

Looking at what is going on in the world today makes me even more clear on how education for peace is still as vitally important in this day and age as when the UWC movement was set up.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Feb 12

We believe many neuro problems associated with #COVID come from the virus hijacking blood vessels to gain access to the brain. This is what it looks like for me, using super-resolution microscopy.
With thanks to @harryspoelstra.bsky.social, combining vascular and neuro to understand #NeuroCovid 💪

Microscopy photo showing brain cells such as astrocytes (purple) and microglia (orange) interacting with cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 (cyan, for the virus nucleocapsid protein). It looks like the virus can already be detected in adjacent microglia.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Feb 23

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · Feb 23

Free resources available to help you get ready for International Long Covid Awareness Day.

(and if you have been thinking about ordering a limited edition 5 year pin …just to let you know they are flying out)

longcovidkids.org/so/dfPKjZA8y...

#LongCovidKids #LongCovid
#LongCovidAwareness

Free Resources Available to Download

Charity Pins And Free Resources Ready For International Long Covid Awareness Day on March 15th 2025

longcovidkids.org

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Danilo Buonsenso @buonsenso.bsky.social · Feb 23

How to support your child with Long Covid : the importance of the family

danilobuonsenso.substack.com/p/how-to-sup...

If you find it useful, please like and share it wifely! free access.

Next episode will be on role of schools and teachers

How to support your child with Long Covid : the importance of the family

Here is the first in-depth analysis on how to support your child with long covid, not from a pharmacological perspective.

danilobuonsenso.substack.com

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Jeff Yau 姚明穎 @jeffmyau.bsky.social · Dec 17

1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 24

A pro-inflammatory protein panel signature that accurately identified Long Covid in kids compared with controls

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · Jan 24

A team in Exeter has developed a finger-prick test to classify long Covid into three types: weak antibody response, excess immune response, and unclear patterns.

Early results suggest it could guide tailored treatments, but larger trials are needed.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exeter firm excited over long Covid test breakthrough

The firm says for some people it can confirm the existence of long Covid and help treatment.

www.bbc.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 24

How our gut microbiome regulates sugar preference nature.com/articles/s41...

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