id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-296171-v9co078y Gialluisi, Alessandro New challenges from Covid-19 pandemic: an unexpected opportunity to enlighten the link between viral infections and brain disorders? 2020-05-06 .txt text/plain 676 41 40 title: New challenges from Covid-19 pandemic: an unexpected opportunity to enlighten the link between viral infections and brain disorders? The current Covid-19 pandemic provides an unprecedented opportunity to disentangle the link between viral/ infectious diseases, inflammation, and the risk of brain disorders, as mentioned here below. About half of hospitalized patients are > 55 years [9] : the resulting higher age-related risk of neurodegenerative disorders is a good setting to investigate triggering and double-hit mechanisms previously hypothesized for viral infections [4] . To sum up, the current Covid-19 pandemic provides an extraordinary window to implement a worldwide collaborative effort, aimed at enlightening the largely unexplored relationship between viral infections, inflammation, and brain disorders. Self-reported olfactory and taste disorders in SARS-CoV-2 patients: a cross-sectional study | clinical infectious diseases | Oxford Academic ./cache/cord-296171-v9co078y.txt ./txt/cord-296171-v9co078y.txt