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However, cognitive issues are often only self-reported and not compared to well-matched control groups. Furthermore, structural brain changes, underlying cognitive impairment and fatigue in post-COVID-19 condition are still not fully understood. To assess cognitive deficits, fatigue, neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life in patients with post-COVID-19 condition, determine changes in brain volumes, cortical thickness and regional shape complexity and assess correlations of imaging measures with clinical symptoms, 49 patients with post-COVID-19 condition (80% female) with a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection at least 3 months prior to testing and new onset of cognitive complaints and 48 healthy controls matched for sex, age and education level underwent comprehensive neuropsychological testing, MRI-based volumetric analyses, and fractal dimensionality analysis to evaluate structural brain complexity. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life were assessed using questionnaires. Patients with post-COVID-19 condition exhibited significant deficits of attention, executive functions, phonemic and semantic fluency, verbal learning and episodic and visuospatial memory (all P(corrected) = 0.002\u2013&amp;lt;0.001). Cognitive impairments were not linked to the severity of the initial COVID-19 infection, but attention performance significantly impacted daily functioning. Patients had a significantly lower quality of life and higher levels of anxiety, depressive symptoms and fatigue compared to controls (all P(corrected) &amp;lt; 0.001) and were severely impacted in their ability to work with 45% being unable to work. Thalamic volumes were significantly reduced in patients with post-COVID-19 condition (P(corrected) = 0.001\u2013&amp;lt;0.001). Fractal dimensionality analyses showed increased complexity in the occipital lobes and hippocampal fimbriae, and reduced complexity in the thalamus bilaterally in patients. Thalamic complexity reductions correlated with increased fatigue severity in patients and controls. Patients with post-COVID-19 condition display a wide spectrum of cognitive deficits, increased levels of fatigue, anxiety and depressive symptoms and reduced quality of life. MRI analyses revealed reduced thalamic volumes and reduced thalamic complexity that was associated with fatigue severity across the whole sample. 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