COVID-19’s impact on the brain, explained

COVID-19 is a respiratory illness, but neurologists have seen a long list of brain and nerve effects: headache, loss of smell, cognitive fog, sleep disruption, and in more severe cases stroke or neuropathy.

In a public lecture with Tab Health Talks, Dr. Kester Nedd outlines how the virus and the body’s response can affect the nervous system, and why symptoms that last months still deserve a neurologic exam rather than a dismissal as anxiety.

If you or a family member are still not back to baseline after COVID, bring a timeline of symptoms to your visit. That history is often as useful as any scan.