{"id":1673,"date":"2021-08-10T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T18:46:15","slug":"covid-and-the-brain-researchers-zero-in-on-how-damage-occurs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01693-6#author-0\">Michael Marshall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>Growing evidence suggests that the coronavirus causes \u2018brain fog\u2019 and other neurological symptoms through multiple mechanisms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. New evidence suggests that the coronavirus\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">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: \u201cCan we intervene early to address these abnormalities so that people don\u2019t have long-term problems?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">With so many people affected \u2014 neurological symptoms appeared in 80% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were surveyed in one study<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01693-6#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0\u2014 researchers hope that the growing evidence base will point the way to better treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01693-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01693-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Michael Marshall Growing evidence suggests that the coronavirus causes \u2018brain fog\u2019 and other neurological symptoms through multiple mechanisms. How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. New evidence suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,90,101,836,309,422,551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain","category-clots-bleeds","category-covid-19","category-immune-system","category-memory","category-pathology","category-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}