Jolygon via Getty Images There's still a lot medical experts don't know about COVID-19 and its effects on the brain, but there's some data that suggests the virus can cause neurological issues. Increasingly, doctors and scientists are focused on how COVID-19 impacts the brain in big and small ways — none of them good. It is not yet clear why certain people who have COVID-19 appear to develop this type of serious brain swelling. “This was the brain being hit as their main disease,” a neuroscientist behind the case study told the journal Nature. That first possibility — that SARS-CoV-2 can cross into the central nervous system and brain — is among the most unsettling.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2020 10:41 UTC