Cara Santa Maria
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5,391 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Cara Santa Maria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Did they hold?
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And also, are those changes linked to functionality?
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So we do know that there is a correlation here because we know that when people get COVID, they often lose their sense of smell.
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We also see brain changes and specifically reduction in gray matter density or thickness.
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Right.
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And then when we get our smell back again, do they just kind of bounce right back?
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We don't know.
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There are literally studies showing that if you have a stuffy nose, the brain regions involved in smell change.
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Your brain is very, very plastic.
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And I think that's why it's important.
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I'm not downplaying the fact that there may be something interesting here.
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This is a really robust study, and they were able to look at this data in a very fine-toothed way and really make some good observations.
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what those observations mean, we still need to do more work here.
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How we interpret these results, I think, is important.
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So we do know that COVID changes the brain.
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We do know specifically that, on average, COVID changes the brain in regions that are associated with smelling.
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We don't yet know if those changes are permanent.
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We don't yet know if those changes actually are linked to any sort of outcome functions.
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And we don't yet know if those changes are permanent
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significant or severe.
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