Executive Functions are Independently Associated with Cognitive Dispersion in HIV Disease

• Published in: Archives of clinical neuropsychology Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 345 - 349
• Main Authors: Penheiro, Romeo, Webber, Troy A, Kiselica, Andrew M, Woods, Steven Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 18.02.2025
• Subjects: Adult; Biological Variation, Individual; Cognition - physiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Executive Function - physiology; Female; HIV Infections - physiopathology; HIV Infections - psychology; Humans; Male; Memory, Episodic; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Retrospective Studies; Young Adult; Within-subject variation; Infectious disease; Cognitive flexibility; Neuropsychological assessment; Psychometric

People with HIV (PWH) can demonstrate elevated cognitive intraindividual variability (IIV-dispersion) that is associated with everyday functioning problems. Higher IIV-dispersion is theorized to reflect lapses in executive aspects of cognitive control, but few studies have directly evaluated this po...