id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-328289-3h3kmjlz Iadecola, Costantino Effects of COVID-19 on the nervous system 2020-08-19 .txt text/plain 6524 349 40 Another Parkinson's disease patient with obesity, hypertension and diabetes, exhibited at autopsy, in addition to hypoxic-ischemic neuronal damage, microhemorrhages, white matter lesions and enlarged perivascular spaces, but no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in the brain (Kantonen et al., 2020) . The encephalopathy is most likely a consequence of systemic factors, such as cytokine sickness, hypoxia and metabolic dysfunction due to peripheral organ failure, while the strokes seem to be related more to hypercoagulability and endothelial injury than to SARS-CoV-2 vasculitis affecting brain vessels. In some cases, the possibility of a SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis could not be ruled out based on the potential for the virus to infect neurons (Song et al., 2020) , but definitive clinical and pathological evidence of neurotropism is lacking. ./cache/cord-328289-3h3kmjlz.txt ./txt/cord-328289-3h3kmjlz.txt