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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2021

A sobering addition to the literature on COVID-19 and the brain.

Amit Mahajan, Graeme F Mason

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Ethical considerations regarding animal experimentation.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amit MahajanDepartment of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and.
Graeme F MasonDepartment of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and.
Yale University · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Comprehensive, Cross Platform-Validated 13C Flux Measures of Intra-and Inter-tissue MetabolismR01DK108283 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KIBBEY, RICHARD G, MASON, GRAEME F. · 2016 to 2019
$2.1M
Relationship of Brain Ethanol Oxidation with BehaviorR21AA028628 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MASON, GRAEME F. · 2020 to 2021
$440k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA028628NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK108283
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) studies have focused on neuropathology. In this issue of the JCI, Qin, Wu, and Chen et al. focused specifically on people whose acute infection lacked obvious neurological involvement. Severely infected patients showed abnormal gray matter volumes, white matter diffusion, and cerebral blood flow compared with healthy controls and those with mild infection. The data remain associative rather than mechanistic, but correlations with systemic immune markers suggest effects of inflammation, hypercoagulation, or other aspects of disease severity. Mechanistic research is warranted. Given the lack of obvious neurological symptoms, neurocognitive assessments were not performed, but the findings suggest that such assessments may be warranted in severely affected patients, even without obvious symptoms. Further, studying CNS involvement of other disorders with overlapping pathophysiologies such as inflammation, coagulation, hypoxia, or direct viral infection may reveal the causes for COVID-19-related neuropathology.

Indexed as

COVID-19Nervous System DiseasesBrainCerebrovascular CirculationHumansSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID33724953
PMCPMC8262460
OpenAlexW3137683540

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Registered trials

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