"Countless Long COVID (LC) patients have turned to social media forming large peer communities where lived experiences are shared in real time.
A recurring patient-reported observation emerging from these communities is the onset or worsening of attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (AD(H)D), or AD(H)D-like symptoms, following COVID-19 infection—despite no prior diagnosis.
Both adults and children have described cognitive, behavioral, and sensory changes consistent with AD(H)D traits.
This mirrors observations in ME/CFS and among neurodivergent youth with high levels of disabling fatigue.
Common patient-reported features include brain fog, mental exhaustion, impaired attention/concentration, sleep disturbances, impatience, hypersensitivity, conversational difficulties, feeling 'different' and, secondarily, feelings of anxiety and depression..
both [LC and AD(H)D] involves neuroinflammation and shared neurocognitive symptoms..
These observations suggest that a subset of LC patients may experience a distinct form of dopaminergic/noradrenergic dysfunction—analogous to a neuroimmune-mediated ‘depression’—potentially triggered by infection and perpetuated by viral persistence."
Feeling 'different' may be sound, I feel.
'Viewpoint | linking long Covid and AD(H)D through neuroimmune dysfunction: A translational framework proposal for precision medicine'
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
A recurring patient-reported observation emerging from these communities is the onset or worsening of attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (AD(H)D), or AD(H)D-like symptoms, following COVID-19 infection—despite no prior diagnosis.
Both adults and children have described cognitive, behavioral, and sensory changes consistent with AD(H)D traits.
This mirrors observations in ME/CFS and among neurodivergent youth with high levels of disabling fatigue.
Common patient-reported features include brain fog, mental exhaustion, impaired attention/concentration, sleep disturbances, impatience, hypersensitivity, conversational difficulties, feeling 'different' and, secondarily, feelings of anxiety and depression..
both [LC and AD(H)D] involves neuroinflammation and shared neurocognitive symptoms..
These observations suggest that a subset of LC patients may experience a distinct form of dopaminergic/noradrenergic dysfunction—analogous to a neuroimmune-mediated ‘depression’—potentially triggered by infection and perpetuated by viral persistence."
Feeling 'different' may be sound, I feel.
'Viewpoint | linking long Covid and AD(H)D through neuroimmune dysfunction: A translational framework proposal for precision medicine'
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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