COVID-19 can infect brain cells: study
The coronavirus COVID-19 can infect brain cells, leading to a reaction that could possibly trigger neurological and psychological complaints, Erasmus MC psychiatry department researchers said on Thursday.
Since the coronavirus pandemic started, patients around the world have reported neurological and psychiatric disorders such as memory problems, headaches, rare psychoses and in some cases encephalitis. One in three people who contracted COVID were diagnosed with these disorders within six months of being infected.
Growing data has indicated that the virus could enter the brain via the olfactory nerve. However, what happens when the virus entered the brain remained poorly understood.
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