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Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health

"Even if people escape brain damage during the initial attack of COVID-19, they remain at considerably greater risk of various brain conditions, including strokes, depression, anxiety, and psychosis for the next several years."

#Brain #Stroke #depression #Anxiety #Psychosis #Long Covid

·health.harvard.edu·Jun 13, 2023

Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health

Long-COVID patients show abnormal brain activity on MRI while doing memory tasks

"Long-COVID patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms such as brain fog showed abnormal brain activity on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while completing memory tests,"

#Brain #Psychosis #Memory

·cidrap.umn.edu·Jun 13, 2023

Long-COVID patients show abnormal brain activity on MRI while doing memory tasks

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Starting thread on Covid-induced schizophrenia

#Brain #Psychosis #schizophrenia

·twitter.com·Jun 13, 2023

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Study: A Third of COVID Patients Develop Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

According to research published in JAMA Psychiatry, "1/3 of COVID-19 patients have long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms, including psychosis and anxiety. Researchers believe that the symptoms could be the result of how the virus itself damages the brain."

#Brain #Psychosis #Anxiety

·verywellhealth.com·Jun 13, 2023

Study: A Third of COVID Patients Develop Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

laurie allee on Twitter

Starting thread on Covid and new onset psychosis:

#Brain #Psychosis

·twitter.com·Jun 13, 2023

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Thread on Twitter: 1/🧵Brain Dz in Long COVID 🧠

📌 This remarkable study of >1M COVID pts found mood & anxiety disorders improved 📌 BUT Acquired #BrainFog (dementia), psychosis & seizures persist at 2 YEARS. 📌 Omicron as bad as Delta

Devastating.

#vaxx & #mask indoors

#Brain #Long Covid #dementia #Psychosis #epilepsy

·twitter.com·Jun 13, 2023

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Covid s harmful effects on the brain reverberate years later

Covid-19 survivors remain at higher risk of psychotic disorders, dementia and similar conditions for at least two years, according to a large study that highlights the mounting burden of chronic illness left in the pandemic’s wake

#Brain #Psychosis #dementia #cognition #Memory

·bloomberg.com·Jun 13, 2023

Covid s harmful effects on the brain reverberate years later

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In 1.28 million people, up to 2 years after Covid, w/ matched controls: "The persisting increased risk of post-COVID cognitive deficit, dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures" and "similar during the delta and omicron waves"

#Brain #Long Covid #cognition #dementia #Psychosis #epilepsy #psychosis

·thelancet.com·Jun 13, 2023

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Psychosis in the Patient With COVID-19: An Emerging Psychopathology?

"COVID-19 can cause severe neuropsychological stress-inducing psychosis in affected patients...there has been an increase in the rate of psychotic symptoms such as paranoia, delusions of persecution, and auditory and visual hallucinations..."

#Brain #Psychosis #hallucinations

·psychiatrictimes.com·Jun 13, 2023

Psychosis in the Patient With COVID-19: An Emerging Psychopathology?

Dr K Fearnley on Twitter

Attention medics. Does your patient have new-onset psychosis? hallucinations? personality changes post Covid?

They have neuro inflammation Encephalitis is not uncommon in #LongCovid, esp in the first months post infection. Psych is not appropriate. #MedTwitter #MedEd #TeamGP

#Brain #Psychosis #Neuroinflammation #encephalitis

·twitter.com·Jun 13, 2023

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Viral respiratory infections and psychosis: A review of the literature and the implications of COVID-19

"Several human coronaviruses (HCoVs) have been associated with psychotic disorders and increasing reports of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19 suggest it has neuroinvasive properties similar to those of other HCoVs."

#Brain #Psychosis

·sciencedirect.com·Jun 13, 2023

Viral respiratory infections and psychosis: A review of the literature and the implications of COVID-19

Covid psychosis understanding how the virus can hijack the brain

"In Houston, Mac’s wife and son were so concerned about the 47-year-old’s behavior they hid the family’s firearms..."

Covid psychosis: Understanding how the virus can hijack the brain

#Brain #Psychosis

·wgntv.com·Jun 13, 2023

Covid psychosis understanding how the virus can hijack the brain

Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening

"Far from the respiratory disease it seemed at first, COVID can impact almost all parts of the body, including the brain. For a small number... COVID infection may be accompanied by an episode of post-COVID psychosis..."

#Brain #Psychosis

·theconversation.com·Jun 13, 2023

Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening