Publication Abstract Display | Type: Published Abstract | Title: Neuropsychological profile of HIV-associated minor cognitive motor disorder (MCMD). | Authors: Diehr MC, White DA, Heaton RK, McCutchan JA, Wallace MR, Grant I, Atkinson H, and the HNRC Group | Year: 1995 | Publication: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society | Volume: 1 Issue: 2 Pages: 138 | Abstract:The American Academy of Neurology AIDS Task Force (1991) established diagnostic criteria for HIV-Associated Minor Cognitive-Motor Disorder (MCMD). We analyzed the profile of Neuropsychological (NP) scores in subjects with and without MCMD. 190 HIV+ men were given an Expanded Halstead-Reitan Battery and medical, psychiatric, and neurological examinations. NP status was clinically rated in eight ability areas: abstraction, attention, learning, memory, motor, psychomotor, sensory, and verbal. A team came to a consensus diagnosis of "Normal" (N=148) or "MCMD" (N=42) for each subject. Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) predicted diagnosis based on the eight ability areas, age, education, and CD4 count. T-Tests revealed group differences on all NP areas, age, CD4 count. DFA revealed that MCMD group membership was predicted best by learning, attention, abstraction, motor and memory scores. |
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