Slow psychosis and cognitive dysfunction after coronavirus infection

Numerous studies and references within scientific journals and websites report cases where patients with coronavirus have cognitive problems after recovery, ie memory impairment and slowing of thought and expression, difficulty concentrating and attention and conversation affected monitoring.

In short, it is as if there is a fog in the brain, that is, the inability to think clearly and quickly, as before.

The abovementioned phenomenon occurs in individuals that have been infected at least a month.

These symptoms can occur to people regardless of ages and the proportions of those affected are almost one in three regardless of whether they became ill and passed the infection on at home or in the hospital.

Along with shortness of breath and fatigue, the cognitive impairments in half of those who appeared lasted for at least six months.

The above symptoms began to be referred to by some scientists as neuro-covid, but it seems to overlap with psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and depression which in correspondence with coronary fatigue, palpitations and dizziness, makes it difficult to formally assess it and determine it, as a purely neurological consequence.

Due to the difficulty of explaining this phenomenon, so far we can only monitor it and describing it.

There are a lot of speculations within the international literature on this subject, but scientific research is yet far behind in determining the exact causes and mechanisms of the virus affecting the brain, or through inflammation or other mechanisms the above symptoms might be observed, which also with the passage of time we understand how unpredictable can be - to appear and leave or continue to affect the central nervous system and we may have the appearance, increase or differentiation of various forms of dementia.

Only future will show us ...