COVID-19 and Parkinson's disease: a casual association or a possible second hit in neurodegeneration?

Affiliations

• ¹ Neurology Unit, Neuromotor and Rehabilitation Department, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123, Reggio Emilia, Italy. francesco.cavallieri@unimore.it.
• ² Clinical and Experimental Medicine PhD Program, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. francesco.cavallieri@unimore.it.
• ³ Neurology Unit, Neuromotor and Rehabilitation Department, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
• ⁴ Clinical and Experimental Medicine PhD Program, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
• ⁵ Neuroradiology Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
• ⁶ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
• ⁷ CENTOGENE GmbH, Rostock, Germany.
• ⁸ Division of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, Grenoble, France.