Large number of COVID-19 survivors will experience cognitive complications

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/obu-lno030421.php

 

News Release 4-Mar-2021
Oxford Brookes University

 

A research review led by Oxford Brookes University has found a large proportion of COVID-19 survivors will be affected by neuropsychiatric and cognitive complications.


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The study found that in the short term, a wide range of neuropsychiatric problems were reported. In one examined study, 95% of clinically stable COVID-19 patients had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other studies found between 17-42%* of patients experienced affective disorders, such as depression.

The main short-term cognitive problems were found to be impaired attention (reported by 45% patients) and impaired memory (between 13-28% of patients).

In the long term, neuropsychiatric problems were mostly affective disorders [eg. depression] and fatigue, as well as impaired attention (reported by 44% of patients) and memory (reported between 28-50% of patients).

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