Rosemary Fama, Eva M Müller-Oehring, Taylor F Levine, Edith V Sullivan, Stephanie A Sassoon, Priya Asok, Helen M Brontë-Stewart, Kathleen L Poston, Kilian M Pohl, Adolf Pfefferbaum, Tilman Schulte
Episodic memory deficits occur in people living with HIV (PLWH) and individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Given known effects of HIV and PD on frontolimbic systems, episodic memory deficits are often attributed to executive dysfunction. Although executive dysfunction, evidenced as retrieval deficits, is relevant to mnemonic deficits, learning deficits may also contribute. Here, the California Verbal Learning Test-II, administered to 42 PLWH, 41 PD participants, and 37 controls, assessed learning and retrieval using measures of free recall, cued recall, and recognition...
April 18, 2023: Brain Structure & Function