What Actually Happens If You Get Coronavirus?

This installment of Teach Me in 10 features Dr Mariah Lelos, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University. Watch this Teach Me in 10 to discover why stem cells are an emerging treatment for neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's

Throughout your lifetime, your brain continuously revises its own wiring. This ability of the brain to change and adapt is referred to as neuroplasticity (neuro = neuron, plasticity = the malleability of the brain). Here to explain precisely what neuroplasticity is, how it happens and how we can harness it, is one of the world's leading minds in this area – Dr Michael Merzenich.

ACS Reactions catch up with experts they talked to at the start of the pandemic and ask, "what do we know now that we didn’t back then?"