Department of Genetics, University of Medical Center, Belgium
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Covid-19, Stress, and Brain Morphometry by Translational Psychiatry
Author(s): Martijn Parra*
With the COVID-19 epidemic has come a nearly unheard-of worldwide health calamity. Considering both the direct impacts of the illness, such as the development of psychopathology or psychiatric disorders in COVID-19-affected people, as well as the indirect repercussions associated to forced and self-imposed seclusion, this health crisis is also a mental health problem. In large-scale retrospective analyses, psychiatric disorders like anxiety and insomnia have been reported at higher rates in people with a COVID-19 diagnosis compared to either influenza or other health problems, and it has been demonstrated that having psychiatric disorders before COVID-19 infection carries a higher relative risk of COVID-19 diagnosis. However, the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on mental health go well beyond the effects of infection and the short- or long-term impacts they may have on COVID-19 surviv.. View More»
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