Facial Emotion Processing in Aviremic HIV-infected Adults.
Arch Clin Neuropsychol
; 31(5): 401-10, 2016 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
The emotional processing in human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive individuals (HIV+) has been scarcely studied. We included HIV+ individuals (n = 107) on antiretroviral therapy (≥2 years) who completed 6 facial processing tasks and neurocognitive testing. We compared HIV+ and healthy adult (HA) participants (n = 40) in overall performance of each facial processing task. Multiple logistic regressions were conducted to explore predictors of poorer accuracy in those measures in which HIV+ individuals performed poorer than HA participants. We separately explored the impact of neurocognitive status, antiretroviral regimen, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection on the tasks performance. We found similar performance in overall facial emotion discrimination, recognition, and recall between HIV+ and HA participants. The HIV+ group had poorer recognition of particular negative emotions. Lower WAIS-III Vocabulary scores and active HCV predicted poorer accuracy in recognition of particular emotions. Our results suggest that permanent damage of emotion-related brain systems might persist despite long-term effective antiretroviral therapy.
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Infecções por HIV
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Transtornos Cognitivos
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Reconhecimento Psicológico
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Emoções
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Expressão Facial
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article