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Nearly 10 percent of COVID-19 patients who experienced cognitive symptoms and who were hospitalized during the early days of the pandemic experienced nonconvulsive seizures, scientists reported in The Annals of Neurology in March. And many more of these patients were found to have abnormalities in brain rhythms that don’t rise to the threshold of a seizure, but are still indicative of a decline in brain function.
“This highlights a lot of the things that we’ve seen with our current experience. . . . But I think it also highlights what we see in all patients who are critically ill and in the intensive care unit. Patients as a whole are at significantly high risk of seizures when they’re critically ill in the ICU,” says Richard Temes, a neurologist at Northwell Health in New York who was not involved in the study. “The only way that you ...
