{"id":205,"date":"2023-06-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=205"},"modified":"2023-10-07T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:50:43","slug":"could-fused-neurons-explain-covid-19s-brain-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/could-fused-neurons-explain-covid-19s-brain-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Could fused neurons explain COVID-19\u2019s \u2018brain fog\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Researchers have demonstrated that a SARS-CoV-2 infection can induce brain cells to fuse together, with severe impacts on the functioning of neurons. Neurons may fuse together with other neurons or glia, and larger multicellular syncytia may be formed. The fusion of neurons may be one of the causes of the cognitive issues associated with COVID-19.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Ram\u00f3n Mart\u00ednez-M\u00e1rmol et al., SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity. <i>Sci. Adv.<\/i> <b>9<\/b>, eadg2248 (2023). DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adg2248\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1126\/sciadv.adg2248<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Researchers have demonstrated that a SARS-CoV-2 infection can induce brain cells to fuse together, with severe impacts on the functioning of neurons. Neurons may fuse together with other neurons or glia, and larger multicellular syncytia may be formed. The fusion of neurons may be one of the causes of the cognitive issues associated with COVID-19.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/could-fused-neurons-explain-covid-19s-brain-fog\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could fused neurons explain COVID-19\u2019s \u2018brain fog\u2019?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37,190,46,18,38,11,66,65,8,14,64],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-dementia","tag-long-covid","tag-neuronal-fusion","tag-neurons","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-syncytia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}