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#AtoZofdementia
Once amyloid starts to affect brain cells, it is thought to trigger a cascade of events, much like starting a row of falling dominoes. The brain’s immune cells become overactive and start to cause more harm than good. Blood flow can also be affected.
#AlzResearch
Once amyloid starts to affect brain cells, it is thought to trigger a cascade of events, much like starting a row of falling dominoes. The brain’s immune cells become overactive and start to cause more harm than good. Blood flow can also be affected.
#AlzResearch
Your brain is the most complex thing in the universe. Billions of cells working together to control your emotions, memories, movement and speech. we can take steps to keep our brains healthy and reduce our risk of developing dementia later in life
#scicomm
#scicomm
A CT scan involves combining a series of X-rays taken from different angles of the head to produce images of a person’s brain to rule out conditions that cause similar symptoms to dementia and show structure changes that occur in diseases like Alzheimer’s
Neuropathological changes with pronounced neuroinflammation have been described in individuals after lethal #COVID19, as well as in the CSF of hospitalized patients with neurological complications. mdpi.com/1579664 #mdpiviruses via @VirusesMDPI
To assess changes can occur POST #SARSCoV2 infection, leading to mild-to-moderate disease, we investigated the brains of four rhesus and four cynomolgus macaques after pulmonary disease and without overt clinical symptoms.
Postmortem - Infiltration of T-cells and activated microglia in the parenchyma of all infected animals, even in the absence of viral antigen or RNA. Moreover, intracellular α-synuclein aggregates were found in the brains of both macaque species.
