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SHREVEPORT, La. — Eleven students from Caddo Parish schools are part of this year’s Bobbie Cates Hicks Science and Medicine Academic Research Training (SMART) program. The students will work alongside ....
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. ....
Scientists see path for the coronavirus to invade the brain By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Published: May 9, 2021, 10:59am Share: Scientists experimenting in the lab have found that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is capable of infecting two types of brain cells neurons and astrocytes. The findings could shed light on a possible reason for the bewildering array of neurological symptoms that follow some COVID-19 survivors even after they recover. COVID-19 is best known as a respiratory disease, but for many victims, it also triggers an array of problems including memory lapses, fatigue and a certain sluggish, fuzzy feeling often referred to as “brain fog.” ....
Why does COVID-19 cause neurological problems, including ‘brain fog’? Scientists might have an answer Updated 8:24 PM; Scientists experimenting in the lab have found that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is capable of infecting two types of brain cells neurons and astrocytes. The findings could shed light on a possible reason for the bewildering array of neurological symptoms that follow some COVID-19 survivors even after they recover. COVID-19 is best known as a respiratory disease, but for many victims, it also triggers an array of problems including memory lapses, fatigue and a certain sluggish, fuzzy feeling often referred to as “brain fog.” ....