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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2022

Hyper/neuroinflammation in COVID-19 and suicide etiopathogenesis: Hypothesis for a nefarious collision?

A Costanza, A Amerio, A Aguglia, G Serafini, M Amore, R Hasler, J Ambrosetti, G Bondolfi, G Sampogna, I Berardelli and 3 more

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

A CostanzaDepartement of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland. Electronic address: alessandra.costanza@unige.ch.
A AmerioDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), Section of Psychiatry, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
A AgugliaDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), Section of Psychiatry, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
G SerafiniDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), Section of Psychiatry, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
M AmoreDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), Section of Psychiatry, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
R HaslerDepartement of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry, Service of Psychiatric Specialties, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland.
J AmbrosettiDepartment of Psychiatry and Department of Emergency, Emergency Psychiatric Unit (UAUP), Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland.
G BondolfiDepartement of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry, Service of Liaison Psychiatry and Crisis Intervention (SPLIC), University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland.
G SampognaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
I BerardelliSant'Andrea Hospital, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
A FiorilloDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
M PompiliSant'Andrea Hospital, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
K D NguyenTranquis Therapeutics, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating scientific and clinical evidence highlighted pathological hyperinflammation as a cardinal feature of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute COVID-19 disease. With the emergence of long COVID-19 syndrome, several chronic health consequences, including neuropsychiatric sequelae, have gained attention from the public and medical communities. Since inflammatory mediators have also been accredited as putative biomarkers of suicidal ideations and behaviors, hyper- and neuroinflammation might share some colliding points, overlapping and being interconnected in the context of COVID-19. This review aims to provide a summary of current knowledge on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of COVID-19-associated hyper/neuroinflammation with focus on their relevance to the inflammatory hypothesis of suicide development. Subsequently, strategies to alleviate COVID-19 hyper/neuroinflammation by immunomodulatory agents (many of which at experimental stages) as well as psychopharmacologic/psychotherapeutic approaches are also mentioned. While suicide risk in COVID-19 survivors - until now little known - needs further analysis through longitudinal studies, current observations and mechanistic postulates warrant additional attention to this possibly emerging mental health concern.

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COVID-19SuicideHumansNeuroinflammatory DiseasesPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeSARS-CoV-2Suicidal IdeationCOVID-19COVID-19 survivorsCytokinesHyperinflammation, neuroinflammationInflammatory peripheral cells, neural cellsLong COVID-19 syndromeSuicidal behaviorSuicidal ideationSuicideSystemic inflammation

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PMCPMC8916836

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