OREANDA-NEWS. Coronavirus infection can cause Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia) in a patient. This was stated by the chief geriatrician of the Ministry of Health Olga Tkacheva at a conference in the press center "Russia Today", reports "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

“A person can notice this by his condition: it’s like a fog in his head, memory is disturbed, the thought process is inhibited, sleep is disturbed, depression occurs,” the specialist said.

At the same time, she emphasized that COVID-19 proceeds differently for all people, someone may develop dementia, someone does not.

Tkacheva advised older people to get a coronavirus vaccine, which will help protect against all complications, including Alzheimer's. She recalled that no means had been found to completely eliminate this disease.

Earlier, scientists from Columbia University in the United States found that in the brain of people who fell ill with a coronavirus infection and died after a severe course of the disease, the same changes in the biochemical composition of neurons were revealed as in Alzheimer's disease.

If the aforementioned processes occur in the head and living people, then this may help explain the "fog in the head" after suffering COVID-19, said Andrew Marks, lead author of the study in Alsheimer's and Dementia.