Talk:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on neurological, psychological and other mental health outcomes

Directly self-contradictory statements
Quoting the introduction section: "SARS-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) directly infects olfactory neurons ...". Yet later in the page, it states "Little if any virus directly infects the olfactory receptor neurons themselves." I also notice the first statement doesn't seem to cite a source.YxShui (talk) 02:29, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Article name
I'm querying the intended name with the creating editor, so this can be moved where appropriate. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:28, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi DoubleGrazing! Thanks for looking over the page! Yeah, I was musing with my colleague about how to name the page. I have a lot more information in my sandbox that I will be adding in the upcoming days/weeks (plus the community will add). I/We felt that COVID19 and the brain was the most general title possible.  We also considered: COVID19: neurological and mental health considerations.  However, I anticipate that the paper will cover much more than that because I plan to include neuropathology, mechanisms of brain dysfunction with COVID19  (e.g., cell types infected), vascular impact, discussion of taste and smell, epidemiology, acute vs. chronic effects, etc.  I found it difficult to come up with any title that would cover everything, so ultimately felt the solution was a simple title and then to include lots of links from the main COVID19 pages.  I imagine this paper will ultimately become very important because 10-20% of patients hospitalized with COVID19 develop chronic symptoms, many of which are neurological, pschychiatric, psychological or other forms of mental health. My colleague is going to focus on the mental health angle, and she intends to include important sections addresses the issues that caregivers face.  We are definitely open to any advice on a title!  Meanwhile, I'll fix the reference and add more material from my other sandbox.BrainMan2017 (talk) 22:01, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

I added some links to this page so that it isn't "as orphaned".BrainMan2017 (talk) 17:36, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Statements needing medical clarification/specification
I've made numerous changes to this article relating to COVID-19 naming conventions, readability, grammar, unencyclopedic language, and other various fixes. There are several more instances where clarification or specification is needed. However, these instances are specific medical statements; in an abundance of caution as I have no medical background, I am hesitant to try to fix them myself. Also, at the moment I'm a little burnt out from editing this article. I'm hoping to get some assistance in addressing the following issues:


 * Under  Acute COVID-19 neurologic symptoms:  "Some children with COVID-19 who develop Kawasaki disease, which is a multi-system inflammatory syndrome that also cerebrovascular disease and neurologic involvement."
 * While I think I know what is attempting to be said here, I'd rather not be mistaken.


 * Under Disorders of smell (olfaction) and taste (gustation): "As mentioned above, many COVID-19 patients suffer from disorders of taste or smell. 41% to 62% of patients (depending on the particular study) have disorders of the sense of smell..."
 * This statistic contradicts the earlier mentioned statistic (Under  Acute COVID-19 neurologic symptoms : "Roughly 81% of patients with clinical COVID-19 experience disorders of smell..." ). The 41% to 62% statistic is from a more recent publication reviewing the literature. But again, I'm not a medical professional and hesitate to change either statement.


 * Under  Acute COVID-19 psychiatric symptoms : "In one review, anxiety, depression, insomnia and distress are reported in up to 35% patients had mild, and 13% of patients had moderate to severe psychological symptoms."
 * Unclear wording.
 * Also, the citation following this statement does not contain the described information. I believe this was a citation error as that source is already cited earlier in the article and is listed as a separate citation in the reference list. Possibly a copy/paste error, but I don't know what study is supposed to be cited here.


 * Under  Chronic COVID-19 psychiatric symptoms : "In 2020, a Lancet Psychiatry review reported occurrence of the following post-COVID-19 psychiatric symptoms:..."
 * The reference cited for this list of symptoms (and their prevalences) discusses the presentations of multiple coronavirus diseases in addition to COVID-19 (i.e., SARS and MERS). Looking at the journal article, it seems to me that the prevalences of the psychiatric symptoms listed here are not specific to COVID-19—in fact, the prevelances are from a table aggregating data from studies specifically about SARS & MERS and not COVID-19.
 * I looked the journal article over and tried to pull out a list of COVID-19 psych symptoms to replace the incorrect one with, but 1) it doesn't look like there's an aggregated list of symptoms from COVID-19 studies like the one from SARS & MERS studies, and 2) my brain is tired after all the editing I've done on this Wikipedia article and so my ability to dissect data from the journal article is diminished right now lol.
 * The other option is to just delete this sentence altogether since the journal article is from the very beginning of the pandemic. A cursory search turns up plenty of more-up-to-date studies and reviews that could be used as reference.

Thanks in advance. --Comm.unity (talk) 21:35, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

New Info and Future
I added statistical information about PTSD in nurses that contradicted research in the article.

I added one sentence about suicide, but this could definitely be expanded. This is an area where more research could be done to make the Wiki article better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartin17 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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