Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
Publication Date
2020
Volume
7
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether aging differentially affects neural activity serving visuospatial processing in a large functional neuroimaging study of HIV-infected participants and to determine whether such aging effects are attributable to differences in the duration of HIV infection.
METHODS: A total of 170 participants, including 93 uninfected controls and 77 HIV-infected participants, underwent neuropsychological assessment followed by neuroimaging with magnetoencephalography (MEG). Time-frequency analysis of the MEG data followed by advanced image reconstruction of neural oscillatory activity and whole-brain statistical analyses were used to examine interactions between age, HIV infection, and cognitive status. Post hoc testing for a mediation effect of HIV infection duration on the relationship between age and neural activity was performed using a quasi-Bayesian approximation for significance testing.
RESULTS: Cognitively impaired HIV-infected participants were distinguished from unimpaired HIV-infected and control participants by their unique association between age and gamma oscillations in the parieto-occipital cortex. This relationship between age and gamma was fully mediated by the duration of HIV infection in cognitively impaired participants. Impaired HIV-infected participants were also distinguished by their atypical relationship between alpha oscillations and age in the superior parietal cortex.
CONCLUSIONS: Impaired HIV-infected participants exhibited markedly different relationships between age and neural responses in the parieto-occipital cortices relative to their peers. This suggests a differential effect of chronological aging on the neural bases of visuospatial processing in a cognitively impaired subset of HIV-infected adults. Some of these relationships were fully accounted for by differences in HIV infection duration, whereas others were more readily associated with aging.
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ISSN
2332-7812
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Recommended Citation
Groff, Boman R.; Wiesman, Alex I.; Rezich, Michael T.; O'Neill, Jennifer; Robertson, Kevin R.; Fox, Howard S.; Swindells, Susan; and Wilson, Tony W., "Age-related visual dynamics in HIV-infected adults with cognitive impairment." (2020). Journal Articles: Internal Medicine. 12.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/com_internal_articles/12