Brain Imaging Validates Cognitive Problems After Lyme Disease

[TANIYA]

New imaging data show distinctive brain changes that appear to explain memory and cognitive problems following Lyme disease.

Using fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) techniques, investigators found changes in white matter and other brain tissues in patients with posttreatment Lyme disease (PTLD) in comparison with healthy control persons who did not have a history of the disease.

[SHILADITYA]

@taniya It is important for clinicians to know that PTLD leads to real, quantifiable brain changes and that patients' cognitive complaints may be a direct consequence of these brain changes, rather than a side effect of other symptoms, such as fatigue, for example