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Paris (AFP) - Potentially fatal COVID-19 complications in the brain including delirium, nerve damage and stroke may be more common than initially thought, a team of British-based doctors warned Wednesday.Severe COVID-19 infections are known to put patients at risk of neurological complications, but research led by University College London suggests serious problems can occur even…

Share on PinterestA new study looks at antioxidants and how they influence response to psychosis treatments.The time that it takes for somebody to respond to treatment for psychosis is a key indicator of their long-term outcome. Psychosis can be a symptom of a number of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective, bipolar, and major depressive…

Share on PinterestA new synapse atlas may provide further insight into the developing brain.The findings, which feature in the journal Science, provide a visual demonstration of the development of synapses across the brain’s life. Synapses connect brain cells, or neurons, in the brain.Although the types of cells in the brain are also present in other…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) The HIV virus can take refuge in the brain even when treated with antiretroviral therapies, only to later infect other organs in the body if that treatment is stopped, a new study in mice and human tissue suggests.Untreated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, cripples the immune system and leaves…

By Michael Le Page A hazel dormouseAndy Harmer / Alamy Two groups of researchers have independently discovered a “brain switch” that makes starving mice enter a hibernation-like state called torpor to save energy. They hope it may be possible to induce similar states in people. “Suspended animation could transform medicine and open the door to…