Thebrain 9 update
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SARS-CoV-2 can have severe effects: a preprint posted last month 2 compared images of people’s brains from before and after they had COVID-19, and found loss of grey matter in several areas of the cerebral cortex. With so many people affected - neurological symptoms appeared in 80% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were surveyed in one study 1 - researchers hope that the growing evidence base will point the way to better treatments. The question, says Serena Spudich, a neurologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is: “Can we intervene early to address these abnormalities so that people don’t have long-term problems?” Infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can cause memory loss, strokes and other effects on the brain. New evidence suggests that the coronavirus’s assault on the brain could be multipronged: it might attack certain brain cells directly, reduce blood flow to brain tissue or trigger production of immune molecules that can harm brain cells. How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. Since the beginning of the pandemic, researchers have been trying to understand how the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 affects the brain.