YouTube short in which a patient (Speaker A) describes profound "brain fog": inability to remember events, frequent word-finding problems, and blank-mindedness. Dr. Robert Whitfield prompts about whether long-term memory recall was affected; the patient confirms severe, global memory impairment. The clip focuses on first-person symptoms of cognitive decline.
I feel like I could remember nothing, like even big, big events, you know, I just felt like I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't come up with the words that I wanted to. When I was speaking, writing, talking, I just. It was almost as if like my mind was blank.
And even when you were trying to. Was this something too, where not just things you're doing during the day or like, you know, forgetting where you left your keys or something like that. Were you having trouble with long term memory recall?
Yes, absolutely.
Affecting all of it.
All of it, Yeah.
I find that part to be extremely interesting. We did a. I don't know if you, you weren't part of the patients that we had. We did a certain amount of EEGs using a product called Wahvi. And it showed that there was decreased electrical activity and the activity would increase when we checked later on after explant surgery. And so that's important because electrical activity is how your brain works. And if there's diminished electrical activity, then obviously that's, you know, as we would look at it, is not that it's causing that, but it's not the way it should be.
