Thalamic volume deficit contributes to procedural and explicit memory impairment in HIV infection with primary alcoholism comorbidity

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 611-620

  Fama, Rosemary ^a,b   Rosenbloom, Margaret J ^a,b   Sassoon, Stephanie A ^b   Rohlfing, Torsten ^b   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Explicit memory; Hippocampus; HIV infection alcoholism comorbidity; Implicit memory; Thalamus; Visuomotor procedural learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; EXPLICIT MEMORY; EXPLICIT MEMORY IMPAIRMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONALCOHOL DRUG ABUSE; PRIMARY ALCOHOLISM; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; PROCEDURAL MEMORY IMPAIRMENT; SUBCORTEX; THALAMIC VOLUME DEFICIT; THALAMUS; COMPLICATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ATTENTION; COMORBIDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84911805322     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-013-9286-4     Document Type: Article

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