Long Covid symptoms 'caused by damage to the brain's control centre', scientists say
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Long Covid symptoms are caused by damage to the brain's "control centre", latest scanning technology suggests. Cambridge and Oxford University scientists have discovered damage to the brainstem in people hospitalised with severe Covid-19 infection. They suspect this effect on the grey matter is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of Covid-19. The team used ultra-high-resolution MRI scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail and found Covid-19 infection damages the
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