Category: CURATED

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“Ms Zorn” was a 45-year-old woman with no previous psychiatric history who presented with a 2-month period of “feeling like I am losing myself” and seeing “visually distorted faces.

According to the International Food and Information Council’s 2020 Food & Health Survey, Covid-19 has transformed the way we shop for food and what we eat.1   Since the start of the pandemic, 85% have changed the food they eat or how they prepare it, with 60% of people cooking from home.

Ordinarily, I’d rinse my nose with a neti pot, drink a cup of tea, and fall back asleep; I have allergies and am prone to sinus infections. But this was September 2020, and it seemed like every sniffle, rash, or pain could be a COVID-19 symptom.

For letter(s) to the editor, click here. Autoimmune encephalitis is an emerging and unique clinical entity that causes severe neuropsychiatric symptoms and results in significant morbidity and mortality.

Clinicians today are increasingly recognizing the neurological consequences of COVID-19. The infection has been associated with various conditions, including cerebrovascular complications such as ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and microangiopathic thrombotic findings on autopsy.

That spring was indeed unforgettable, but for a totally different reason. Then, an array of puzzling physical and behavioral symptoms interfered with school and family. After a great start to her senior year, things began to go haywire for Kayla in March 2016.

By Kamila Ahmad  Deterioration of a part of the brain known as the medial temporal lobe can cause an older adult to make more impulsive decisions.

Imagine a neurologic disease that mimics what it feels like to inexplicably lose your mind. One minute, you’re a healthy young woman whose biggest concern is acing a test in your college chemistry class. Suddenly, you start having hallucinations and delusions.

Are you wasting food because it ripens—then rots—faster than you can eat it? (We’re sheepishly raising our hands along with you.) Storing food the right way can make all the difference. Ethylene, a natural gas that’s released from some fruits and vegetables, speeds up the ripening process.