Bertollo, A.G.; Braga, G.C.; Tonin, P.T.; Luzardo, A.R.; Bagatini, M.D.; Ignácio, Z.M. The Impact of Stress from Social Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Disorders: An Analysis from the Scientific Literature. Brain Sci.2023, 13, 1414.
Bertollo, A.G.; Braga, G.C.; Tonin, P.T.; Luzardo, A.R.; Bagatini, M.D.; Ignácio, Z.M. The Impact of Stress from Social Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Disorders: An Analysis from the Scientific Literature. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1414.
Bertollo, A.G.; Braga, G.C.; Tonin, P.T.; Luzardo, A.R.; Bagatini, M.D.; Ignácio, Z.M. The Impact of Stress from Social Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Disorders: An Analysis from the Scientific Literature. Brain Sci.2023, 13, 1414.
Bertollo, A.G.; Braga, G.C.; Tonin, P.T.; Luzardo, A.R.; Bagatini, M.D.; Ignácio, Z.M. The Impact of Stress from Social Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Disorders: An Analysis from the Scientific Literature. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1414.
Abstract
The COVID-19 Pandemic generated, in addition to severe symptoms, hospitalizations, and deaths worldwide, stress from the fear of the disease and social uncertainties, from restriction measures and social isolation. Stress from social isolation impacts mental health, aggravating conditions, and triggering neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals with biopsychosocial vulnerability. During and immediately after the period of social restriction imposed by the Pandemic, the scientific community carried out several research protocols. It revealed results that relevantly demonstrate the harmful effect of the stress induced by the Pandemic situation. This review reports and discusses research results demonstrating impairments in neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, dementia, eating disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. In addition to studies showing the effect of social isolation on disorders, research results are reported and discussed that evaluated protocols with some possible therapeutic intervention strategies during times of social restriction.
Keywords
COVID-19; Social isolation stress; Neuropsychiatric disorders; Biopsychosocial vulnerability; Therapeutic strategies
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
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