HIV Complications

Pediatric Patients May Develop Semantic Impairment

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 23rd, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Children suffering from neurological disorders related to HIV infection may have a reduced ability to distinguish between related but distinct semantic representations, researchers in Texas suggest.

"Language deficits are a major characteristic of neurobehavioral dysfunction in pediatric HIV disease," according to P. Brouwers and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Brouwers and coworkers found that many children with HIV induced neurological damage also displayed "semantic processing abnormalities," which may underlie...

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