Why is COVID-19 associated with mental illness?

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on people’s mental health. Besides the indirect impact of the pandemic, a diagnosis of COVID-19 is itself associated with a greater risk of subsequent mental illness. Conversely, people with an existing psychiatric diagnosis are at an increased risk of getting...

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Autores principales: Taquet, Maxime, Harrison, Paul J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8270754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34308403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.06.009
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on people’s mental health. Besides the indirect impact of the pandemic, a diagnosis of COVID-19 is itself associated with a greater risk of subsequent mental illness. Conversely, people with an existing psychiatric diagnosis are at an increased risk of getting COVID-19. Here, we discuss why this is the case.
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spelling pubmed-82707542021-07-20 Why is COVID-19 associated with mental illness? Taquet, Maxime Harrison, Paul J. Med (N Y) Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on people’s mental health. Besides the indirect impact of the pandemic, a diagnosis of COVID-19 is itself associated with a greater risk of subsequent mental illness. Conversely, people with an existing psychiatric diagnosis are at an increased risk of getting COVID-19. Here, we discuss why this is the case. Elsevier Inc. 2021-08-13 2021-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8270754/ /pubmed/34308403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.06.009 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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