Behavioral Disorders, Coronavirus and the Nervous System
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 February 2021) | Viewed by 10516
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroimmunology; neurodegenerations; demyelinating diseases; Multiple Sclerosis; COVID-19 pandemic; HcoV; SARS-CoV-2; virus neuroinvasion; stem cells; neuroinflammation; neurodevelopment disorders
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Interests: autism; stem cells; gene expression; neuro-immunology
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Interests: neuropediatric disorders and HcoV; COVID-19 pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; virus neuroinvasion; stem cells; neuroinflammation; neurodevelopment disorders; seizures; status epilepticus
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 with a rapid increase in the number of infected and deaths around the world from the first patient identified in December 2019. Available data on neuroinvasion and neurological manifestation have been reported from these patients. However, CNS infections are, in this pathology, one of the most critical problems of health, because patients frequently exhibit neurologic sequelae. Today, respiratory viruses have placed themselves as responsible for CNS pathologies and to date, several reports have described the association between respiratory viral infections and neurological symptoms, being the most frequently reported in status epilepticus, neurodegenerations, demyelinating diseases, and neurodevelopmental disorders, encephalopathies, and encephalitis, in any cases supported by cerebrospinal fluid analysis. All these views suggest that these pathogens can be spread throughout the body to reach the CNS at any moment. Thus, the current knowledge of the mechanisms and routes used by these neuroinvasive viruses’ remains scarce, as well as information on the impact of commorbities, short- and long-term neurological disorders, as well as on the neurologic sequelae, in all cases relevant to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Maria De los Angeles Robinson Agramonte
Prof. Dr. Dario Siniscalco
Dr. Ramiro Jorge Garcia Garcia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion
- neurodegenerations
- COVID-19
- Neural manifestations
- Animal models
- Biochemistry
- Neuroinflammation
- HCoV in infants
- Neuroimmunology
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