Neuropsychological complications due to post-infectious disease of COVID-19 in people with disorders related to psychoactive substances.

Abstract

Covid-19 can generate a series of post-infectious neurological disorders, which in themselves can cause dual pathology states and increase the cognitive and emotional alterations existing in addictive disorder. The research aimed to explore the possibility of an increase in cognitive and neuropsychological changes in consumers of psychoactive substances who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2. It is a comparative study with 64 participants who had a neuropsychological and emotional regulation evaluation. The evaluation of the cognitive processes reveals statistically significant differences that also arise as an increase in the affectation, in the language mechanisms and executive functions. The use of psychoactive substances associated with the evidence of a covid-19 disease, can exert an increase in cognitive alterations associated with the use of psychoactive substances and emotional changes, such as anxiety, stress and depression which can influence on deficits of the orientation, attention and reading-writing.

Keywords: Neuropsychology, Addiction, Covid-19, Polydrug user.