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How does Covid impact mental health and brain disorders? Here’s what a new study found #IndiaNEWS
The occurrence of mental health conditions and neurological disorders among people recovering from Covid-19 has been a concern since early in the pandemic. Several studies have shown that a significant proportion of adults face problems of this kind, and that the risks are greater than following other infections.However, several questions remain. Do the risks of psychiatric and neurological problems dissipate, and if so, when? Are the risks similar in children as in adults? Are there differences between Covid variants?Our new study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, explored these issues. In analyses led by my colleague Maxime Taquet, we used the electronic health records of about 1.25 million people diagnosed with Covid, mostly from the US. We tracked the occurrence of 14 major neurological and psychiatric diagnoses in these patients for up to two years.We compared these risks with a closely matched control group of people who had been diagnosed with a respiratory infection other than Covid.We examined children (aged under 18), adults (18-65) and older adults (over 65) separately.We also compared people who contracted Covid just after the emergence of a new variant (notably omicron, but earlier variants too) with those who did so just beforehand.Our findings are a mixture of good and bad news. Reassuringly, although we observed a greater risk...Read more

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