*COVID-19 isn’t just a cold*

Brain imaging and neuropsychological assessment of individuals recovered from mild to moderate #SARS-CoV-2 infection | medRxiv
▻https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.08.22277420v1

Conclusions and Relevance :

[…] in our sample, a mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection was not associated with neuropsychological deficits, significant changes in cortical structure or vascular lesions several months after recovery. External validation of our findings and longitudinal follow-up investigations are needed.

#neurologie

#COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs
►https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01693-6

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How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. 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.

Infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can cause memory loss, strokes and other effects on the brain. 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?”

With so many people affected — neurological symptoms appeared in 80% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were surveyed in one study1 — researchers hope that the growing evidence base will point the way to better treatments.