Abnormal and Behavioural Psychology

The COVID-19 pandemic was a novel type of traumatic event, affecting the general population worldwide and causing significant disruption to daily life. A new urgent concern is the burden associated with COVID-19 symptoms that persist after infection, known as long-COVID syndrome. The purpose of this paper is to:describe the most common psychiatric symptoms reported by patients with long-COVID syndrome evaluate methodological discrepancies among available studies; and inform clinicians and policymakers on potential strategies to promote in order to manage the psychiatric consequences of long-COVID syndrome. The current review included twenty-one papers, the majority of which used a cross-sectional or cohort design. The definitions of long-COVID syndrome differed significantly.

Insulin resistance has been recognised since a few decades after the discovery of insulin. To paraphrase a classic Charles Dickens novel published 62 years before the discovery of insulin, this is the best of times, as the concept of insulin resistance has expanded to include the brain, with the realisation that insulin has a life beyond glucose regulation. In other words, it is the worst of times because insulin resistance is linked to deadly diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease, all of which affect the brain. Peripheral insulin resistance affects nearly a quarter of the adult population in the United States. It has recently been linked to Alzheimer's disease, specifically the level of brain insulin.