One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness: study

New research shows that people living with COVID-19 are at greater risk of developing mental illness. More details about the study were told by The Hill. Data published in The Lancet Psychiatry Journal shows that 20% of observed COVID-19 patients are diagnosed with a mental disorder, such ...

Coronavirus May Cause Mental Disorders: What You Need to Know

A new study found that some critically ill COVID-19 patients frequently experience mental health problems. Writes about this "Focus". In a paper published in the medical journal Lancet, British scientists say that some severely ill people have delirium - a disorder ...

Jerusalem syndrome: why in some cities of the world tourists go crazy

Some cities seem to be especially dangerous for tourists: visiting them causes nervous breakdowns so often that mental disorders are named after them - Jerusalem syndrome, Paris syndrome... Something in the air? Or is this all fiction? Oliver McAfee had to come home...

WHO recognized Plyushkin syndrome as a mental illness: what are its symptoms?

If you find it difficult to throw unnecessary things into the trash, then you may be suffering from a mental disorder: WHO has included pathological hoarding (in Russian - Plyushkin syndrome) in the list of psychiatric diseases in the new diagnostic reference book ICD-11. This will affect the subsidization of treatment by sickness funds and health authorities throughout...

Street lighting can cause insomnia and mental disorders: what you need to know

Over the past decade, much of Europe and the United States have changed the way city streets are illuminated. Local governments from Paris to Brooklyn have replaced high-energy sodium light bulbs that provide warm, yellow lighting with energy-efficient blue LED bulbs, but such lighting is dangerous ...

From Jolie to DiCaprio: history of stars with mental disabilities

World Mental Health Day is celebrated annually in October. One of its many goals is to help the public learn more about the so-called borderline mental disorders: depression, phobias, neuroses. In many countries, such diseases are still stigmatized, considered something of a whim ...

Mental disorders are responsible for the loss of gray matter.

  A new study has shown that many mental disorders share a common structure in the brain. Scientists from the Stanford School of Medicine analyzed six conditions and found that diseases are associated with gray matter loss in three specific areas responsible for cognitive function, such as ...

The wife of the mayor of New York is going to help suffering from mental illness

Chirlaine McCrae, wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and head of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, has launched a new campaign. The First Lady of New York hopes to draw attention to the problem of mental illness, the attitude of society towards them, and ...

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