Bhubaneswar, July 8 -- London: Covid-19 can cause severe neurological complications, including delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage, warn researchers.

Published in the journal Brain, the research team identified one rare and sometimes fatal inflammatory condition, known as ADEM, which appears to be increasing in prevalence due to the pandemic.

Some patients in the study did not experience severe respiratory symptoms, and the neurological disorder was the first and main presentation of Covid-19, the researchers said.

"We identified a higher than expected number of people with neurological conditions such as brain inflammation, which did not always correlate with the severity of respiratory symptoms." said study senior a...