notes that “Since the flu pandemic of 1917 and 1918, many of the flu-like diseases have been associated with brain disorders.”“Those respiratory viruses included H1N1 and SARS-CoV.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is also known to impact the brain and nervous system,” adds the researcher. The question is — how, and to what extent?
Dr. de Erausquin recently published a paper along with colleagues, including senior author Dr. Sudha Seshadri, a professor of neurology at the same institution and director of the university’s Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases. “The basic idea of our study is that some of the respiratory viruses have affinity for nervous system cells,” Prof.