Todd Ackerman A Houston Methodist-led team of researchers have found COVID-19 can result in an unexpectedly frequent occurrence of acute transverse myelitis (ATM), a rare but often devastating spinal cord […]
Could COVID-19 Be Causing This Rare Spinal Cord Disorder?
Can COVID-19 cause a rare spinal condition called transverse myelitis? Learn what TM is and see the evidence connecting the two conditions. The year 2020 has been one for the […]
Potential molecular mechanisms of chronic fatigue in long haul COVID and other viral diseases
Carl Gunnar Gottschalk, Daniel Peterson, Jan Armstrong, Konstance Knox & Avik Roy Infectious Agents and Cancer volume 18, Article number: 7 (2023) Cite this article, A Correction to this article was published on 24 April 2023 Abstract Historically, COVID-19 emerges as one of […]
Unraveling long COVID: Here’s what scientists who study the illness want to find out
September 9, 2023, By Will Stone NPR Newsletter Researchers looking for root causes of long COVID work in the autopsy suite inside the Clinical Center at the National Institute of Health […]
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with COVID-19: a case report
Authors: Dmitriy A. Gagarkin, Keith E. Dombrowski, Keyur B. Thakar & John C. DePetrillo Journal of Medical Case Reports volume 15, Article number: 219 (2021) Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic. The disease, typically characterized […]
COVID-19 and emerging spinal cord complications: A systematic review
Authors: Ritwick Mondal,aShramana Deb,bGourav Shome,cUpasana Ganguly,aDurjoy Lahiri,a,d,⁎ and Julián Benito-Leóne,f,g,⁎⁎ Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2021 Jun; 51: 102917.Published online 2021 Mar 21. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2021.102917 Abstract Background Spinal cord complications associated with coronavirus infectious disease of […]
Coronavirus and the Nervous System
What is SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? What do we know about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 on the nervous system? What are the immediate (acute) effects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 on the […]