Affective disorders in the structure of post-COVID syndrome (literature review)

The article provides a review of the scientific literature on affective disorders in the structure of post-COVID syndrome. The issues of etiopathogenesis are revealed from the perspective of the modern paradigm based on the biopsychosocial model of the development of mental disorders. Features of clinical picture, psychopathology, dynamics, and psychopharmacotherapy are discussed. The relevance of studying affective disorders in the post-COVID period is caused by the prevalence of COVID-19 among the population and the burden of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in order to clarify the typology and clinical features and further develop diagnostic algorithms and ways of therapeutic interventions.