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Functional movement disorders (FMDs) are a heterogenous group of movement abnormalities that greatly affect the quality of life of patients. They usually manifest as a result of underlying psychological or psychiatric illnesses without any known structural or neurochemical diseases. Various neurological disorders such as encephalitis, stroke, demyelination, seizures, and neuropathy have been reported by otherwise healthy individuals during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Here, we describe the case of a 27-year-old woman who presented to our outpatient department with episodes of deviation of angle of mouth with variability and distractibility. Following thorough clinical evaluation and appropriate investigation, the underlying etiology was identified as FMD secondary to the restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic to contain the transmission of the virus. The lockdown, isolation, financial strain, and other pandemic-related issues are stressors that may contribute to psychogenic disorders in people.Copyright © 2021 Annals of Movement Disorders Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow.
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This case study draws attention on mental health sequelae that emerged in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak after recovery from hospitalization, even in subjects without personal psychiatric history. The case involves a 65-year-old male shift nurse who took SARS-COV-2 infection through a co-worker and that had been hospitalized for interstitial pneumonia from April 6 to April 17. After recovery, he developed psychiatric symptoms overlapping between different dimensions of psychiatric disorders and started to be followed by the Occupational Health Department of a Major University Hospital in central Italy. He reported a score of 28 at the Peritraumatic Distress Inventory and of 39 at the Self-Rating Anxiety State. He was treated with a combination therapy of SSRI and NaSSA antidepressants with clinical remission. In this case study, authors discuss the possible overlapping role of post-traumatic stress and anxiety symptoms in patients discharged after COVID-19 hospitalization that may deserve appropriate classification, treatment and follow up with the future goal to refine clinical management of post and long COVID syndromes of subjects who present low abnormalities in other specialty investigations.Copyright © 2022 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA.
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Fear of choking is a relatively understudied phenomenon in older adults, despite the higher incidence of choking to death in this population and the associated mental health burden. This case report presents the use of a cognitive-behavioral (CBT) approach to treating choking phobia in an older adult in her 80s, with sessions conducted over the telephone during the COVID-19 pandemic. A reliable change in self-reported avoidance of solid food was observed, although indices of general distress appeared to have remained stable. By placing a seemingly focal problem (choking phobia) within a comprehensive conceptualization framework using gerontology, we were able to consider additional complexity related to aging-related beliefs and experiences of distress to address therapeutic opportunities and challenges, including the COVID-19 context.Copyright © 2022 Hogrefe.
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COVID-19 disease is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). In most of the cases the patients present with typical symptoms of fever, cough, dyspnea, sore throat etc. The involvement of central nervous system by SARS-CoV-2 resulting in encephalopathy, encephalitis and neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, depression, panic attack and post traumatic symptoms have been described in the literature. But the clinical presentation of Psychosis as a neuropsychiatric manifestation in COVID-19 patients has been described in very few literatures. Our aim of the study was to find out the incidence of Psychosis in COVID-19 patients and its association with elevated levels of inflammatory markers such as IL-6, CRP etc, and with that of elevated coagulation parameter such as D-dimer values. Severity of Pneumonia (by HRCT thorax), neuropsychiatric presentation of Psychosis and the various interventions received by the COVID-19 patients with Psychosis were also studied. Out of 2752 COVID-19 cases new onset COVID Psychosis was seen only in 36 cases with an incidence of 1.308%. Out of these, 30 cases were aged > 60 years (83.3%) with male predominance (n=25)(69.44%) Psychotic manifestations such as delusion, hallucinations and mania were seen in 34 (94%), 32(88.8%) and 28 (77.7%) cases respectively. Copyright © 2022, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences. All Rights Reserved.