Book chapter
Mental Illnesses Associated with COVID‐19 Infection
Managing Mental Illness After COVID‐19 Infection, pp 7-31
26 Nov 2024
Abstract
This chapter reviews the different facets of COVID‐19 infection on an individual's mental health. It describes how COVID‐19 infection may worsen preexisting psychiatric conditions and discusses the neurobiology of COVID‐19. The chapter considers its impact on the brain and how it results in problems with mood, thinking, behavior, cognition, and memory. It reviews the psychological impact of COVID‐19 including stress on affected individuals and their family members. Finally, the chapter provides examples on how patients and families can interact with physicians and healthcare clinicians around their mental health issues related to COVID‐19 infection. It presents three cases based on our clinical experience working with COVID‐19 patients. The first two cases are of patients seen early in the pandemic before the availability of vaccines and antiviral treatment. The third case involves a patient seen more recently.
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- Title
- Mental Illnesses Associated with COVID‐19 Infection
- Creators
- Jacob Holzer - Harvard UniversityDale E. Panzer - Drexel UniversityAna Trueba - Harvard University
- Contributors
- Stephanie A. Collier (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Managing Mental Illness After COVID‐19 Infection, pp 7-31
- Publisher
- Wiley; Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Number of pages
- 25
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85217339169
- Other Identifier
- 991022202095804721