Category: Brain

Impact of Systemic Diseases on Olfactory Function in COVID-19 Infected Patients

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Authors: Ayat A Awwad,1 Osama MM Abd Elhay,2 Moustafa M Rabie,3 Eman A Awad,4 Fatma M Kotb,4 Hend M Maghraby,4 Rmadan H Eldamarawy,4 Yahia MA Dawood,1 Mostafa IEI Balat,1 Ahmed IM Hasan,5 Ahmed H Elsheshiny,6 Said SMM El Sayed,2 Albayoumi AB Fouda,2 Ahmad MF Alkot2 DovPress November 7, 2022 1Otorhinolaryngology department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt; 2Medical Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt; 3Public Health […]

How Covid-19 damages lungs explained

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Authors: mINT oCTOBER 31, 2022 sYNOPSIS SARS-CoV-2 is the third novel coronavirus to cause human outbreaks in the 21st century, following SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERS-CoV in 2012. Covid-19: The virus attacks mitochondria, continuing an ancient battle that began in the primordial soup Kingston (Canada), (The Conversation): Viruses and bacteria have a very long history. […]

Auditory Disturbances and SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Brain Inflammation or Cochlear Affection? Systematic Review and Discussion of Potential Pathogenesis

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Pietro De Luca1, Alfonso Scarpa1, Massimo Ralli2, Domenico Tassone3, Matteo Simone3, Luca De Campora3, Claudia Cassandro4† and Arianna Di Stadio Frontiers in Medicine Patients affected by COVID-19 present a series of different symptoms; despite some of these are common, other less likely appear. Auditory symptoms seem to be less frequent, maybe because rarer or, alternatively, because they are underestimated during the clinical investigation. […]

Coronavirus and the Nervous System

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Authors: NIH What is SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? What is SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? Coronaviruses are common causes of usually mild to moderate upper respiratory tract illnesses like the common cold, with symptoms that may include runny nose, fever, sore throat, cough, or a general feeling of being ill. However, a new coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory […]

COVID fog demystified

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Authors: Jennifer Kao 1, Paul W Frankland 2PMID: 35768007PMCID: PMC9197953DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.020 Abstract Acute mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to a more chronic cognitive syndrome known as “COVID fog.” New findings from Fernández-Castañeda et al. reveal how glial dysregulation and consequent neural circuit dysfunction may contribute to cognitive impairments in long COVID. Go to: Main text More than 2 years since the […]

How COVID-19 causes neurological damage found

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Particularly in the group with the most serious neurological symptoms, the researchers identified a link with an excessive immune response. Authors: PTI 15th November 2022 The Indian Express COVID-19 may cause damage to the nervous system, even though it does not affect nerve cells, according to a small study. While it was not uncommon for […]

COVID-19 infections increase risk of long-term brain problems

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Authors: Washington University in St. Louis Medical Xpress If you’ve had COVID-19, it may still be messing with your brain. Those who have been infected with the virus are at increased risk of developing a range of neurological conditions in the first year after the infection, new research shows. Such complications include strokes, cognitive and […]

Study Shows Pfizer’s Paxlovid Pill Can Cause Deadly Blood Clots

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Authors:  Jim Hoft Published October 13, 2022  A new study warned that Pfizer’s Paxlovid COVID-19 pill can have harmful interactions with common medications used to treat cardiovascular disease, as what the Gateway Pundit reported in 2021. Pfizer’s Paxlovid, which contains the drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir (NMVr), can interact with several other drugs routinely used to treat cardiovascular […]

Pfizer mRNA Spike Protein Found in Deceased Man’s Brain and Heart: Peer-Reviewed Report

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“We know it goes to the brain, it goes to the heart, it produces the spike protein, which damages those cells, causes inflammation… it travels… causing damage to blood vessels and blood clots.” Authors: Kanekoa Kanekoa News October 6, 2022 Dr. Michael Mörz from the Institute for Pathology in Dresden, Germany, published a case study […]

A Case Report: Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination againstCOVID-19

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Authors: Michael Mörz Abstract: The current report presents the case of a 76-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease (PD)who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination. The patient was first vac-cinated in May 2021 with the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vector vaccine, followed by two doses of theBNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in July and December 2021. The […]