Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7 T in COVID-19: brainstem effects and outcome associations
Publication: Brain
Catarina Rua, Betty Raman, Christopher T Rodgers, Virginia F J Newcombe, Anne Manktelow, Doris A Chatfield, Stephen J Sawcer, Joanne G Outtrim, Victoria C Lupson, Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Guy B Williams, William T Clarke, Lin Qiu, Martyn Ezra, Rory McDonald, Stuart Clare, Mark Cassar, Stefan Neubauer, Karen D Ersche, Edward T Bullmore, David K Menon, Kyle Pattinson, James B Rowe
08 October 2024
Summary
Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.
Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and supported by NIHR Cambridge and Oxford BRCs, were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain. Read the full news story.