Neurocognitive correlates of alexithymia in asymptomatic individuals with HIV

Alexithymia, an impairment of affective and cognitive emotional processing, is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and may reflect effects of the virus on brain areas that are also important for multiple cognitive functions, such as the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices...

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Published in:	Neuropsychologia Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 1295 - 1304
Main Authors:	Bogdanova, Yelena, Díaz-Santos, Mirella, Cronin-Golomb, Alice
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2010 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Affective Symptoms - diagnosis Affective Symptoms - epidemiology Affective Symptoms - psychology Anterior cingulate Apathy Biological and medical sciences Brain - physiopathology CD4 Antigens - blood Cognition Cognition Disorders - diagnosis Cognition Disorders - epidemiology Cognition Disorders - physiopathology Emotion Female Frontostriatal HIV Infections - blood HIV Infections - epidemiology Human viral diseases Humans Immunodeficiencies Immunodeficiencies. Immunoglobulinopathies Immunopathology Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Nadir CD4 cell count Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Quality of Life - psychology Surveys and Questionnaires Viral diseases Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids Apathy Frontostriatal Anterior cingulate Cognition Nadir CD4 cell count Emotion Affect affectivity Central nervous system Asymptomatic Frontal cortex Encephalon Cingulate cortex Human Immunopathology Alexithymia Retroviridae AIDS Basal ganglion Personality Corpus striatum Emotion emotionality Immune deficiency Lentivirus Infection Virus Viral disease Human immunodeficiency virus frontostriatal emotion cognition anterior cingulate nadir CD4 cell count apathy
ISSN:	0028-3932, 1873-3514, 1873-3514
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