ESTUDIO DE LA DINÁMICA COGNITIVA EN PACIENTES INFECTADOS POR EL VIH COGNITIVE DYNAMICS IN PATIENTS INFECTED BY HIV

摘要: AIDS, caused by the HIV-1 virus, has neurotrophic properties enough to invade CNS from beginning of infection. The cognitive deterioration due HIV-1, cognitive-motor disorder, is hard detect at initial stages infection because signal and symptoms are insidious course as usually in many other others neurological diseases, non-specific. Several studies, using neuropsychological test batteries have reported attentional, memory and, specially, psychomotor deficit even asymptomatic seropositive subjects. Despite these findings, up today there no consensus about which markers would be sensitive cognitivemotor disorder before clinical impairments arise. present study assessed 50 subjects 34 seronegative controls a computerized tests battery. results showed generalized central information processing functions. Psychomotor mechanisms were, contrast, relatively spared.