COVID on the Brain: Neuropsych Diagnoses Common Within 6 Months of Infection
email article One-third of COVID-19 survivors received a neurologic or psychiatric diagnosis within 6 months of being infected with SARS-CoV-2, an analysis of 236,000 electronic health records showed. Incidence of any diagnosis of a neurologic or psychiatric disorder was 33.62% (95% CI 33.17%-34.07%), according to Paul Harrison, FRCPsych, of University of Oxford in England, and co-authors. About one in eight (12.84%, 95% CI 12.36%-13.33%) had never received a neuropsychiatric diagnosis prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection, the researchers reported in Anxiety (17%) and mood disorders (14%) wer...