Moshe Shalom

Sackler School of Medicine, Israel

Title: Neurological Symptoms Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019

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Biography

Moshe Shalom is a medical student and researcher at the New York Program of the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He has received his Bachelor’s of Science degrees in Biology and Psychology at Brooklyn College, and is pursuing a Medical Degree with the intent of pursuing a neurosurgery specialty.

Moshe’s research interests lie in neurotrauma, and he is currently involved in ongoing research on the effects of glutamate excitotoxicity on spinal cord injury using a mouse model. Moshe is also involved in literature review, and has recently published a paper titled the “Neurological Symptoms Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019.”

Abstract

In this discussion I will focus on summarizing my previously published literature review article, “Neurological Symptoms Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019,” and everything that is currently known about the neurological effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2, or COVID-19). It has been shown that SARS-COV-2 may result in neuromuscular disorders as well as damage nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord, which may lead to weakness, numbness, and pain. Published literature has stated that SARS-COV-1 may infect the central nervous system and due to its similarities to SARS-COV-2, we suspected that SARS-COV-2 has the same potential. Clinical research done since the writing of this review paper have shown that the SARS-COV-2 virus can indeed have neurological effects which clinicians should keep an eye out for when treating patients.