How Viruses Reshape the Brain: Imaging Neuroinflammation and Cancer Pathways with Claudia Kirsch
When COVID-19 began flooding hospitals, neuroradiologists started seeing something alarming.
Dr. Claudia Kirsch recalls reading cases involving venous infarcts, massive inflammation, and devastating brain injury. Patients were experiencing hemorrhages and large infarctions linked to the virus. It was a wake-up cal, one that drove her to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 was affecting the brain at a structural and biological level.
One of the earliest mysteries? Smell loss.
Patients were losing their sense of smell without sinus inflammation. The virus requires ACE2 receptors to enter cells, yet…
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