COVID brain could be caused by 'leaky' brain cells

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COVID brain could be caused by 'leaky' brain cells
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Researchers found problems with a critical cellular component

“The beauty of the nervous system is [its] ability to fine-tune signal in a very hyperactive noisy environment,” he says. “If you do something to disturb that… what ends up happening is you get the equivalent of neurological static.”People with COVID-19 generally don’t have a large number of copies of the virus that causes it, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in their brains.

“Excessive calcium within the nerve can [ultimately] can cause membrane instability,” Giordano says. Those unstable membranes can then start letting in calcium from outside the cell.

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