2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Lithium (medication)

Virology

Psychiatry

Bipolar disorder

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Mania

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Pediatrics

Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)

Psychology

Psychosis

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

Delirium

Mood

Medicine

Catatonia

Disease

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Evidence suggests that acute severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may be associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms, including delirium (Zubair et al., 2020; Rogers et al., 2020). Here we present two case reports of adult patients with COVID-19 infections who presented with severe psychosis and mania with no prior psychiatric history and in the absence of significant medical or pulmonary symptoms and an unremarkable neurological work-up.

Letter to the Editor: New onset psychosis and mania following COVID-19 infection