A Novel Approach to the Determination and Characterization of HIV Dementia

: Background : Neuropsychological studies of the pattern and extent of cognitive impairment in HIV-infected patients have mostly used deviations from control values and/or cut-off scores as criteria for classification of dementia. There is, however, no agreement as to how to define impairment, and classification is imprecise. Method : The current study used a dementia classification matrix, developed with a step-wise linear discriminant analysis...