Coronavirus: An inflammation in the brain control center causes long covid

Closer to the cause of long covid are scientists, as a new research showed that a brain stem damage, which is its control center, after infection with can cause long-term symptoms. According to a survey published in Brain magazine on long covid and the long and psychiatric effects of the disease. Researchers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities used highly high-resolution MRIs to scan the brain of 30 people, who had been admitted to hospital with severe coronavirus infection at the beginning of the pandemic and before the vaccine was disposed of. As they identified, Covid-19 infection causes damage to the brain stem area associated with dyspnoea, fatigue and anxiety. The brain stem connects the brain to the spinal cord and is the control center that regulates many basic vital functions, such as breathing, heart rate, pain and blood pressure. Researchers point out that these results could help understand other diseases associated with inflammation of the brain stem, such as multiple sclerosis and dementia.