Long COVID as a functional somatic symptom disorder caused by abnormally precise prior expectations during Bayesian perceptual processing: A new hypothesis …

AR Joffe, A Elliott - SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This review proposes a model of Long-COVID where the constellation of symptoms are in
fact genuinely experienced persistent physical symptoms that are usually functional in …

Risk factors for worsening of somatic symptom burden in a prospective cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Engelmann, B Löwe, TT Brehm, A Weigel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Little is known about risk factors for both Long COVID and somatic symptoms
that develop in individuals without a history of COVID-19 in response to the pandemic. There …

Subphenotypes of self-reported symptoms and outcomes in long COVID: a prospective cohort study with latent class analysis

GD Kitsios, S Blacka, JJ Jacobs, T Mirza, A Naqvi… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To characterise subphenotypes of self-reported symptoms and outcomes (SRSOs)
in postacute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Design Prospective, observational cohort study …

[HTML][HTML] Why the hypothesis of psychological mechanisms in long COVID is worth considering

C Lemogne, C Gouraud, V Pitron… - Journal of Psychosomatic …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 report persistent symptoms that may impair their
quality of life for months, even after a mild episode of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Assessment and management of long COVID

RA Rivas-Vazquez, G Rey, A Quintana… - Journal of health service …, 2022 - Springer
Almost two years into the pandemic, the scientific and healthcare communities continue to
learn a great deal regarding COVID-19, the disease produced by the severe acute …

Illness perceptions in long-COVID: A cross-sectional analysis in adults

W Bierbauer, J Lüscher, U Scholz - Cogent Psychology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Symptoms may persist after an acute COVID-19 infection, a phenomenon termed long-
COVID. Increasing attention is now directed toward these long-term effects, as many seem to …

How beliefs about coronavirus disease (COVID) influence COVID-like symptoms?–A longitudinal study.

L Rozenkrantz, T Kube, MH Bernstein… - Health …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Evidence from psychosomatic and nocebo research has indicated that believing
one will develop symptoms makes the experience of such symptoms more likely. We applied …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic fatigue and affective symptoms in acute and long COVID are attributable to immune‐inflammatory pathways

AF Almulla, HK Al‐Hakeim, M Maes - Psychiatry and Clinical …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This letter to the editor aims to summarize our novel findings, which show the important
biological pathways underpinning fatigue, depression, and anxiety symptoms in patients …

Psychological risk factors for long COVID and their modification: study protocol of a three-arm, randomised controlled trial (SOMA. COV)

P Engelmann, C Büchel, J Frommhold, HFE Klose… - BJPsych Open, 2023 - cambridge.org
BackgroundGrowing evidence suggests that in addition to pathophysiological, there are
psychological risk factors involved in the development of Long COVID. Illness-related …

COVID-19 long-term effects: is there an impact on the simple reaction time and alternative-forced Choice on recovered patients?

M Santoyo-Mora, C Villaseñor-Mora… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
A comparative single-evaluation cross-sectional study was performed to evaluate cognitive
damage in post-COVID-19 patients. The psychophysics tests of Two-Alternative Forced …