The major objective of the AIDS Dementia Center is to map the course of HIV on the nervous system, to find identifiers of the earliest neurological involvement and predictors of neurologic decline in adults and children. The activities of the Core and five Projects described projects are very closely interrelated to develop the mission of the center. The cohorts of subjects are already established. Projects are: Project 1- Detailed longitudinal evaluation of adult HIV infected subjects, with careful documentation at six month intervals of neurological, neuropsychological psychiatric, cerebrospinal fluid and hematological examination. Participation in multicenter protocols of antiretroviral agents for the prevention of the onset of neurological disease and its treatment if it does occur. A percentage of the subjects in this Project will also be evaluated in Projects 1-4) Project 2- Similar studies, without CSF, on HIV infected hemophiliac children and adolescents. Project 4- Detailed clinical neurophysiological examinations of these two cohorts, to include: routine and quantitative EEG; visual, brainstem auditory, P3 cognitive and somatosensory evoked potentials; in the adults, nerve conduction and fiber density studies. Project 5- Evaluation of the same subjects with magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The objectives of the Program will be achieved by correlation of the results of the multifactorial evaluations, by using subjects as their own controls and by comparison with normal controls.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
2P01NS026680-04A1
Application #
3100263
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (SRC (08))
Project Start
1991-09-01
Project End
1993-08-31
Budget Start
1991-09-01
Budget End
1992-08-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
1991
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
078861598
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599
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Robertson, Kevin; Parsons, Thomas D; Van Der Horst, Charles et al. (2006) Thoughts of death and suicidal ideation in nonpsychiatric human immunodeficiency virus seropositive individuals. Death Stud 30:455-69
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Corder, E H; Robertson, K; Lannfelt, L et al. (1998) HIV-infected subjects with the E4 allele for APOE have excess dementia and peripheral neuropathy. Nat Med 4:1182-4
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Hall, M; Whaley, R; Robertson, K et al. (1996) The correlation between neuropsychological and neuroanatomic changes over time in asymptomatic and symptomatic HIV-1-infected individuals. Neurology 46:1697-702
Whitt, J K; Hooper, S R; Tennison, M B et al. (1993) Neuropsychologic functioning of human immunodeficiency virus-infected children with hemophilia. J Pediatr 122:52-9
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Robertson, K R; Hall, C D (1992) Human immunodeficiency virus-related cognitive impairment and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia complex. Semin Neurol 12:18-27

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