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White Matter Damage, Neuroinflammation, And Neuronal Integrity In Hand, Aljoharah Alakkas, David B Clifford, Et Al.
White Matter Damage, Neuroinflammation, And Neuronal Integrity In Hand, Aljoharah Alakkas, David B Clifford, Et Al.
2010-2019 OA Pubs
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) persist even with virologic suppression on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), and the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are not well understood. We performed structural magnetic resonance imaging and MR spectroscopy (MRS) in HIV+ individuals without major neurocognitive comorbidities. Study participants were classified as neurocognitively unimpaired (NU), asymptomatic (ANI), mild neurocognitive disorder (MND), or HIV-associated dementia (HAD). Using structural MRI, we measured volumes of cortical and subcortical gray matter and total and abnormal white matter (aWM). Using single-voxel MRS, we estimated metabolites in frontal gray matter (FGM) and frontal white matter (FWM) and basal ganglia (BG) regions. Adjusted odds …