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Can Corona patients have stuttering after recovery?
It is estimated that about one-third of corona patients suffer from neurological symptoms that include stroke, psychosis, cerebral palsy and now also stuttering.
Researchers call for increased research efforts to crack the virus' effect on the brain
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Monday, 25 January 2021, 09:25
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We are still in the midst of the waves of the Corona plague and are particularly preoccupied with mortality rates and the new and contagious numbers of patients, but one day, after this plague passes, we will still have to continue to deal with the dire consequences it will leave behind.
And one of them will be many recoverers who will continue to deal with mental, cognitive and mental problems.
The journal Scientific American recently published an article claiming that after the Covid-19 crisis we will have to deal with a "public mental health crisis."
Studies indicate that about one-third of covid-19 patients suffer from a variety of neurological symptoms, including: stroke, psychosis, mania, stuttering, brain fog, and forgetfulness.
The study's author, Dr. William Banks of the University of Washington, said the mortality rate from the epidemic, terrible as it may be, is not our only problem. He said, "In the end we may be left with a kind of legacy that has hurt one in 10 Americans."
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The article in Scientific American opens with the story of a 40-year-old teacher from Texas.
He fell ill in Corona in August and lost his voice for a month, but when his voice returned to him he finally arrived with a heavy stutter.
Doctors would excuse the onset of stuttering as an effect of high stress, but Dr. Su-on Chang, a brain researcher at the University of Michigan who specializes in stuttering, disagrees with this explanation (although she explained that stress can exacerbate existing stuttering).
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"Speech is one of the most complex motor behaviors we have," Dr. Chang explained, "it involves 100 different muscles that need to work in sync and cooperation and respond in a split second ... and it largely depends on the proper and optimal functioning of the brain." The million dollar is, then, what causes stuttering that attacks the teacher who has recovered from corona and other neurological symptoms that have attacked other patients.
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Postmortems performed on the victims of the epidemic found remnants of the virus inside the brain in some but not all of the samples.
Therefore, researchers continue to look for other avenues in which the virus may produce its neurological effects.
To do this it is necessary to perform much more post-mortem on patients who die from corona, and specifically on their brains.
How does the virus get to the brain?
Among the explanations currently being considered as possible explanations for the effect of corona virus on the brain and cognitive functions are inflammatory signals sent to the brain following the cytokine storm that forms in the body in response to viral infection, or viral proteins that manage to penetrate the blood-brain barrier.
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