The kynurenine pathway relates to post-acute COVID-19 objective cognitive impairment and PASC.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and natural history of post-acute COVID-19 objective cognitive impairment and function, and their relationship to demographic, clinical factors, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), and biomarkers.

Methods: A total of 128 post-acute COVID-19 patients (age = 46 ± 15; 42% women, acute disease severity: not hospitalized: 38.6% mild: 0-1 symptoms, 52% 2+ symptoms; 9.

Is there a 'zone of eye contact' within the borders of the face?

Eye contact is a salient feature of everyday interactions, yet it is not obvious what the physical conditions are under which we feel that we have eye contact with another person. Here we measure the range of locations that gaze can fall on a person's face to elicit a sense of eye contact. Participants made judgements about eye contact while viewing rendered images of faces with finely-varying gaze direction at a close interpersonal distance (50 cm).