title: A controlled neuropsychological study of HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative adolescent haemophiliacs.
abstract: Sixty-four males with haemophilia were assessed with a series of neuropsychological tests and a structured interview for psychiatric symptoms. Thirty-one had been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) before the age of 18 and were in various stages of the disease at the time of testing and 33 were HIV negative. Sixteen male control subjects were recruited to match in age with the haemophilia group. The HIV-seropositive group were older than the HIV-negative group due to the cohort effect of the time of infection. Contrary to predictions from the known effects of HIV on the central nervous system the HIV-seropositive group performed better on many of the tests than the HIV-seronegative group. In some but not all of the tests this may have been an age effect. There was very little psychiatric morbidity, consistent with the view that high levels of psychological support provided by the haemophilia units can alleviate the effects of the illness on emotions and behaviour. These findings form a baseline for a 2-year follow-up study which is in progress.
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Westwell
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Viney
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harrington
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PEMRC Applied Psychology Unit, CambridgeHaemophilia Unit, Birmingham Children's HospitalDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of ManchesterMedical Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pickering
keywords: haemophilia; human immunodeficiency virus; neuropsychology