(Timothy Huzar/ Medical News Today) — Researchers have been exploring the way COVID-19 affects a person’s nervous system, causing neurological symptoms.
This week, they presented their findings at Neuroscience 2021. This event is the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which is the largest global society for scientists and clinicians focused on issues of brain and nervous system health.
The findings indicate how SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — gains access to a person’s brain. They also provide insight into the effects it has once it has entered this part of the body. (…)