HVLT-R and BVMT-R recognition Z-scores were averaged to create a recognition composite

Epidemiological studies have shown that persons taking anti-inflammatory drugs for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis had a reduced risk of developing AD . Moreover, small, randomized control trials examining anti-inflammatory drugs such as TNF-a inhibitors , though preliminary, have yielded encouraging results . If larger studies show that anti-inflammatory drugs can lower the risk of…

HIV has been shown to cause significant impairments of varying severity in higher order brain functions

Lower UPSA-2 scores were related to lower education and WRAT-4 scores both in this study and the Blackstone et al. report, but in contrast to that study, our HIV+/ METH+ participants did not have lower education and WRAT-4 scores than the METH− groups, reflecting relatively intact premorbid intellectual functioning, or “cognitive reserve”, in the dually-affected…