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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-8
pubmed:abstractText
Language deficits are a major characteristic of neurobehavioral dysfunction in pediatric HIV disease. An object decision task, which assessed reaction time facilitation following a semantic or identical prime in comparison to an unrelated prime, was used to investigate whether semantic processing abnormalities could be responsible, in part, for these deficits. Thirty children with vertically acquired HIV infection (M age 9.0 years; range 6-13) participated. Either a picture of the same object (repetition prime), a semantically related object (semantic prime), a semantically unrelated object, or a nonsense object preceded a target picture, which in 50% of the cases was a real object. Brain scans of children were rated and used together with neurobehavioral functioning to classify children as having HIV-related CNS abnormalities (n = 13) or not (n = 17). Increased semantic priming but not repetition priming was associated with a greater degree of cortical atrophy. Furthermore, CNS compromised children had significantly faster reaction times following a semantic prime compared to an unrelated prime than non-compromised patients. This facilitation following semantic priming for the CNS compromised patients (13.3%) almost equaled the facilitation following repetition priming (15.3%) while for the non-compromised patients facilitation following semantic priming (7.9%) was clearly smaller than following repetition priming (14.6%). These data suggest that HIV infection in children may result in a reduced neural network leading to impoverished semantic representations characterized by poor differentiation between closely related objects.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1355-6177
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
491-501
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Antigens, CD4, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Atrophy, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Child, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Cognition Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-HIV-1, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Language Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Semantics, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Severity of Illness Index, pubmed-meshheading:11396551-Tomography, X-Ray Computed
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Abnormally increased semantic priming in children with symptomatic HIV-1 disease: evidence for impaired development of semantics?
pubmed:affiliation
HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. brouwers@bcm.tmc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article