NEW DELHI : Indian neuroscientists will map the brains of people who either recovered from covid-19 or were asymptomatic to the disease to understand the reasons behind rising cases of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among such patients.
Scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), who claim that this is the first such study globally, have come up with a novel non-invasive neuro-imaging technique of magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy.
The brain-mapping will start enrolling volunteers for the study by end-October. NBRC, an autonomous institute under the ministry of science and technology, will recruit all the asymptomatic and recovered covid-19 patients with mental health