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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."
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
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..."
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
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."
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..."