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Introduction           The coronavirus disease of 2019(COVID- 19), caused by infection from severe acute respiratory pattern coronavirus 2(SARS- CoV- 2), has circulated across the world as a serious epidemic. SARS- CoV- 2, an enveloped contagion with a non-segmented, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome, is a factor of the Coronaviridae( CoV) family which causes a general respiratory illness with a wide range of clinical inflexibility, ranging from asymptomatic or mildly characteristic( fever, cough, dyspnea, myalgias, fatigue, and diarrhea) in a large proportion of cases to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome( ARDS) and fatal multi-organ failure. Its high transmissibility and kind of high rate of causing serious complications to have led COVID- 19 to come serious public health trouble worldwide. (zhu et al., 2020)           A regular menstrual cycle is a marker of a healthy hyp...

UNREVEALING THE BATTLE BETWEEN VIRUS & YOUR BRAIN INTRODUCTION: As the COVID-19 pandemic rocketed around the globe, it quickly became clear that this was not your average respiratory illness, can also lead to neurological problems. The disease appears to affect a number of body systems, including the heart and the brain. Early on in the pandemic, there came reports that many people with the disease had lost their sense of smell, while some people also may later battle headaches, debilitating fatigue, and trouble thinking clearly, sometimes referred to as “brain fog.” a curious symptom suggesting the virus may affect the nervous system. As more people became infected with moderate and severe COVID-19 experience a range of neurological, cognitive, psychological and psychiatric symptoms SARS-CoV-2 might cross the  blood-brain barrier  and invade the brain. Indeed, a recent report by NIH-funded researchers showed that the viral  spike protein , when injected into mice...