Neurological manifestations articles within Nature Communications

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  22 December 2023 | Open Access

  Para-infectious brain injury in COVID-19 persists at follow-up despite attenuated cytokine and autoantibody responses

  COVID-19 can be associated with neurological complications. Here the authors show that markers of brain injury, but not immune markers, are elevated in the blood of patients with COVID-19 both early and months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, particularly in those with brain dysfunction or neurological diagnoses.

  • Benedict D. Michael
  • , Cordelia Dunai
  •  & David K. Menon

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  23 February 2023 | Open Access

  TEFM variants impair mitochondrial transcription causing childhood-onset neurological disease

  Van Haute et al describe autosomal recessive TEFM variants that impair mitochondrial transcription elongation and reduce the levels of promoter distal mitochondrial RNA transcripts, leading to heterogeneous mitochondrial diseases with a treatable neuromuscular transmission defect.

  • Lindsey Van Haute
  • , Emily O’Connor
  •  & Rita Horvath