Decoding Long COVID's Impact on the Brain with Igor Koralnik, MD

Our understanding of how viral infections can affect the brain has changed dramatically in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic and research into long COVID has accelerated some of this new knowledge. Igor Koralnik, MD, chief of Neuro-Infectious Diseases and Global Neurology in the Department of Neurology at Feinberg has studied the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19 and developed tools to support patient recovery. In this episode, Koralnik shares the latest research on long COVID and talks about recent findings from his lab identifying a common virus in the brains of some patients with Parkinson's disease that may influence how Parkinson's develops.

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Decoding Long COVID's Impact on the Brain with Igor Koralnik, MD is an episode from Breakthroughs by Feinberg School of Medicine.

This episode is 31:02 long.

This episode was published on Mar 23, 2026.

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