UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO.

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA.

INGLES 7.
FAUSTO MEDRANO FLORES. NO. CTA.1923294.

Academic discipline. Psychology.

Research question. How does COVID-19 affect the brain?

Description of the Everything indicates that it is, but we still do not know
problema. how much or how or in whom, so it is very important to
know, especially to determine what type of therapy to
apply to combat the neurological symptoms of the
disease.

INTRODUCTION.

Benedict Michael, a neurologist at the University of Liverpool in England, and

his team have studied in detail 125 COVID-19 patients who had neurological or
psychiatric symptoms. Had 62% percent had bleeding or damage to the brain's blood
supply system, and 31% had mental disturbances such as confusion or prolonged
unconsciousness, often accompanied by encephalitis, an inflammation of brain
tissue. For example, some patients with mental disorders developed disorientation,
aggressiveness, and hallucinatory psychotic states.

DEVELOPMENT.

Therefore, other clinical studies have also shown that the most common
neurological problem of the disease is encephalitis that can end up "stripping" many
neurons in the brain and spinal cord. As a consequence, causing them to lose
myelin, the fatty layer that surrounds their processes to increase the speed at which
they conduct their electrical impulses and communicate with each other, as is also
the case in multiple sclerosis. Other less frequent symptoms also observed in
COVID-19 patients refer to damage to the peripheral nervous system, that is,
damage to the neurons that run through the body outside the brain and spinal cord.
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FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA.
INGLES 7.
FAUSTO MEDRANO FLORES. NO. CTA.1923294.

But, how does COVID-19 affect the brain? Therefore, experts are debating
two possibilities. One is that the virus directly infects the brain and the other is that it
affects it indirectly by intensely stimulating the body's immune system. In the first
case, to solve these problems, he found antivirals such as remdesivir, and in the
second, anti-inflammatories.

There is a not strong enough answer, that the virus can directly infect neurons.
The virus has also been observed, although at low levels, in the brains of some
patients who died from COVID-19, and everything indicates that it is more difficult
for the brain to be infected than other organs of the body. It is speculated that the
cause of this difficult penetration is that in the brain there is less presence of ACE2,
one of the receptor proteins that help the virus to penetrate cells, but at the moment
it is only a hypothesis.

CONCLUSION.

Therefore, we still have a lot to know about the consequences of COVID-19

and its mode of action, especially in the brain and nervous system. What we know
so far is enough not to lower our guard against the pandemic.