Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion

Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:

If I might add to that, the person appointed to the post at St. James's Hospital is highly specialised in the area of neuro-cognitive disorders. Her research is at the cutting edge of identifying, first the existence of neuro-cognitive disorder and then the management of it. I have to go back to what Dr. Bannan said when he said no structural abnormalities, that refers to when one does a brain scan very frequently and there is nothing on the brain scan to say what exactly the problem is. We think from emerging evidence that neuro-cognitive strategies are probably going to be the best in managing some of those symptoms. This is very cutting edge and very early research and we are fortunate that the person we have is actually the most qualified person in the country for that post. But it is very early stages in the management of that.

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