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SUMMARY:“It’s all in your head: Stroke\, Vascular Dementia\, Parkinson
 ’s Disease and COVID-19” - Greg Bix - Tulane University School of Medi
 cine
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CONTACT:Daisy Saward
DESCRIPTION:“Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 causes significant
  damage to vascular barriers\, especially the brain\, and typically withou
 t directly entering the impacted organs. My seminar will discuss my lab’
 s work on the direct and indirect ways in which SARS-CoV-2 disrupts the bl
 ood-brain barrier and thereby increasing the incidence and severity of cer
 ebrovascular insult including stroke and vascular dementia. Furthermore\, 
 I will present our recent identification of a common (25-40% of the global
  population) genetic polymorphism that dramatically increases the risk of 
 SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to Parkinson’s disease.”
LOCATION:Jean Thomas Lecture theatre\, Sanger Building\, Tennis Court Road
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