Psychiatric Disorders Uncommon in Aftermath of Coronavirus Infection
For patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit, data showed that 65% of patients experienced delirium, 69% agitation, and 21% altered consciousness.
For patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit, data showed that 65% of patients experienced delirium, 69% agitation, and 21% altered consciousness.
Another unintended consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is posttraumatic stress disorder, which Shulkin has experience with in his capacity working with veterans.
In the long term, social isolation may well impose increased mortality risks on society’s most at-risk populations for mortality from cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as from COVID-19.
There have been substantial increases in the rates of depressive symptoms, probable depression, and suspected post-traumatic stress disorder among civilians in Hong Kong following the start of widespread protests.
Among patients who received stellate ganglion block (n=74), the adjusted mean CAP-5 total symptom severity score change from baseline was -12.6 points (95% CI, -15.5, -9.7 points) vs -6.1 points (95% CI, -9.8, -2.3 points) for those who received sham treatment.
A newly established center at Johns Hopkins is reinvigorating research on the potential therapeutic applications of psychedelics.
Veterans in rural areas shared their satisfaction with geriatric psychiatry care delivered via video telehealth.
Increased risk seen in cohort of young and middle-aged veterans in unadjusted and fully adjusted models.
The long-term benefits of pharmacologic treatments were inferior to those of psychotherapeutic and combined treatments across 6 randomized clinical trials reviewed by investigators.
A machine learning algorithm trained on electroencephalographic coherence can predict transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment outcome for patients with major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.