Abstract

  The potential involvement of SARS-CoV-2 in Central Nervous System (CNS) has attracted considerable attention because of the neurological and psychiatric manifestations presented throughout the disease process. There have been many reports of extra respiratory manifestations, such as neurological and psychiatric symptoms at the admission of the patients in the Hospitals, during and after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The seriousness of the virus in various parts of the body will determine what comes after the initial phase. The main brain symptoms and brain disorders that are described in many studies at admission during and after infection are: impaired memory (34,1%), dizziness (7,9 - 16,8%), headache (3,7 - 90,5%), stroke (2,8 - 8,1%) (cerebral infarction (1,6%), venous thrombosis, intracerebral, or subarachnoid hemorrhage), meningitis/encephalitis, and acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalopathy, impaired consciousness (7,5 - 7,8%), seizures (1-1,5%), loss of sense of smell (hyposmia (14,5% - 35,6%---34%)) or taste (hypogeusia (12,5%---34%), depressive symptoms (35%), depression (47,1% - 14,9), suicidality (2%), delirium/confusion (27,0%-27,9%), insomnia (41,9%---12,1%---100%), anxiety (35,7%---14,8%), somatization (45,9%), psychosis (3,9---4,4), and post-traumatic stress disorder (96,2% - 32,2%). Unfortunately, all these percentages are changing every day and perhaps we’ll have the reliable numbers at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, which we wish to be very soon.

Keywords: Covid 19; Brain Disorders; Neurological and Psychiatric

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Citation: Magda Tsolaki., et al. “Brain Disorders at Admission, During and After SARS-CoV-2 Infection". Acta Scientific Neurology 4.2 (2021): 37-50.

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