id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-333696-3ci9re9a Alomari, Safwan O. COVID-19 and the Central Nervous System 2020-08-04 .txt text/plain 4407 266 46 Li and colleagues (2020) have suggested that SARS-CoV-2 can enter the brain, and it might be the cause of the respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19 [25] . Recently, Olds & Kabbani (2020) raised the question of nicotine associated neurological comorbidity in COVID19 patients depending on published evidence that the viral target receptor J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f ACE2 is expressed in the brain and functionally interacts with nAChRs [29, 30] . This was the first reported case of MERS associated with coronavirus infection, which adds to the expanding list of differential diagnoses to be considered in a COVID-19 patient with neurological signs, most notably; cerebellar ataxia and disturbance in consciousness [49, 52, 53] . Laboratory work-up was negative for influenza, with the diagnosis of COVID-19 made by detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) PCR. ./cache/cord-333696-3ci9re9a.txt ./txt/cord-333696-3ci9re9a.txt