LSU Health Shreveport View Comments Research Notebook is a recurring series highlighting research activities at LSU Health Shreveport. Today's notebook focuses on LSUHS researcher’s exploration of the neurological effects of COVID-19 on the human brain. New research being done by Dr. Ricardo Costa, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health Shreveport, offers an up-close view of how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spread to the brain. The study helps explain the alarming array of neurological symptoms reported in some patients with COVID-19. The groundbreaking research also reveals clues as to why some patients suffer severe neurological effects while others experience none at all. The study is led by Diana Cruz-Topete, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at LSU Health Shreveport, and includes collaborators Oscar Gomez-Torres, PhD, and Emma Burgos-Ramos, PhD, from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Spain.