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ArticleJournal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology2014

Apathy is associated with white matter abnormalities in anterior, medial brain regions in persons with HIV infection.

Rujvi Kamat, Gregory G Brown, Khalima Bolden, Christine Fennema-Notestein, Sarah Archibald, Thomas D Marcotte, Scott L Letendre, Ronald J Ellis, Steven Paul Woods, Igor Grant and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rujvi Kamata San Diego University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology , San Diego , CA , USA.
Gregory G Brown
Khalima Bolden
Christine Fennema-Notestein
Sarah Archibald
Thomas D Marcotte
Scott L Letendre
Ronald J Ellis
Steven Paul Woods
Igor Grant
Robert K Heaton
TMARC Group
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING COREP30MH062512 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DAVID J MOORE · 2001 to 2026
$50.4M
Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center (TMARC)P50DA026306 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GRANT, IGOR · 2009 to 2018
$33.9M
Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDSR25MH081482 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MARIANA CHERNER · 2007 to 2026
$5.2M
FUNCTIONAL IMPACT OF NEUROBEHAVIORAL IMPAIRMENTS IN HIVR01MH057226 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO · PI HEATON, ROBERT KERNACHAN · 1997 to 2001
$382k
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA026306NIDA NIH HHS P50DA026306NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH062512NIMH NIH HHS R25 MH081482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apathy is a relatively common psychiatric syndrome in HIV infection, but little is known about its neural correlates. In the present study, we examined the associations between apathy and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) indices in key frontal white matter regions in the thalamocorticostriatal circuit, which has been implicated in the expression of apathy. Nineteen participants with HIV infection and 19 demographically comparable seronegative comparison subjects completed the Apathy subscale of the Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale as a part of a comprehensive neuropsychiatric research evaluation. When compared to the seronegative participants, the HIV+ group had significantly more frontal white matter abnormalities. Within HIV+ persons, and as predicted, higher ratings of apathy were associated with greater white matter alterations in the anterior corona radiata, genu, and orbital medial prefrontal cortex. The associations between white matter alterations and apathy were independent of depression and were stronger among participants with lower current cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) counts. All told, these findings indicate that apathy is independently associated with white matter abnormalities in anterior, medial brain regions in persons infected with HIV, particularly in the setting of lower current immune functioning, which may have implications for antiretroviral therapy.

Indexed as

ApathyAdultCohort StudiesDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleFrontal LobeHIV InfectionsHumansLeukoencephalopathiesMaleMiddle AgedPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesRegression AnalysisStatistics, NonparametricApathyDepressionDiffusion tensor imagingHIV/AIDSPrefrontal cortex

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PMID25275424
PMCPMC4303236
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