{"id":5040,"date":"2024-03-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2024-03-20T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T23:07:09","slug":"covids-toll-on-the-brain-new-clues-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covids-toll-on-the-brain-new-clues-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID\u2019s toll on the brain: new clues emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of smell, headaches, memory problems: COVID-19 can bring about a troubling storm of neurological symptoms that make everyday tasks difficult. Now new research adds to the evidence that inflammation in the brain might underlie these symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Not all data point in the same direction. Some new studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, directly infects brain cells. Those findings bolster the hypothesis that direct infection contributes to COVID-19-related brain problems. But the idea that brain inflammation is key has gotten fresh support: one study, for example, has identified specific brain areas prone to inflammation in people with COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of smell, headaches, memory problems: COVID-19 can bring about a troubling storm of neurological symptoms that make everyday tasks difficult. Now new research adds to the evidence that inflammation in the brain might underlie these symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Not all data point in the same direction. Some new studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, directly infects brain cells. Those findings bolster the hypothesis that direct infection contributes to COVID-19-related brain problems. But the idea that brain inflammation is key has gotten fresh support: one study, for example, has identified specific brain areas prone to inflammation in people with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covids-toll-on-the-brain-new-clues-emerge\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID\u2019s toll on the brain: new clues emerge<\/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":[968,37,159,46,18,969,67,455,65,8,14],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-brain-barrier","tag-brain-damage","tag-cognitive-decline","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-infection","tag-inflammation","tag-metformin","tag-neurons","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}