A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Social Cognition Among People Living with HIV: Implications for Non-Social Cognition and Social Everyday Functioning
Year: 2024
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: Social cognition-the complex mental ability to perceive social stimuli and negotiate the social environment-has emerged as an important cognitive ability needed for social functioning, everyday functioning, and quality of life. Deficits in social cognition have been well documented in those with severe mental illness including schizophrenia and depression, those along the autism spectrum, and those with other brain disorders where such deficits profoundly impact everyday life. Moreover, subtle deficits in social cognition have been observed in other clinical populations, especially those that may have compromised non-social cognition (i.e., fluid intelligence such as memory). Among people living with HIV (PLHIV), 44% experience cognitive impairment; likewise, social cognitive deficits in theory of mind, prosody, empathy, and emotional face recognition/perception are gradually being recognized. This systematic review and meta-analysis aim to summarize the current knowledge of social cognitive ability among PLHIV, identified by 14 studies focused on social cognition among PLHIV, and provides an objective consensus of the findings. In general, the literature suggests that PLHIV may be at-risk of developing subtle social cognitive deficits that may impact their everyday social functioning and quality of life. The causes of such social cognitive deficits remain unclear, but perhaps develop due to (1) HIV-related sequelae that are damaging the same neurological systems in which social cognition and non-social cognition are processed; (2) stress related to coping with HIV disease itself that overwhelms one's social cognitive resources; or (3) may have been present pre-morbidly, possibly contributing to an HIV infection. From this, a theoretical framework is proposed highlighting the relationships between social cognition, non-social cognition, and social everyday functioning.
Source: Neuropsychology Review
Language: English
Topic: HIV Research and Treatment
Subfield: Virology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,590
Awards: G1448483502, An RCT of Speed of Processing Training in Middle-Aged and Older Adults with HIV, Intersection of Material-Need Insecurities and HIV and Cardiovascular Health, Substance use, intersectional stigma, and health outcomes for women living with HIV, UAB Institutional Career Development Program in HIV-Related Heart, Lung, Blood and Research, Feasibility of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Intervention for Black Women Living with HIV, Disrupted Social Preference in Early Psychosis: A Longitudinal Multimodal Neuroimaging Study, Executive Function Training to Reduce Cognitive Intra-Individual Variability in Adults with HIV, The Impact of Insomnia on Pain, Physical Function, and Inflammation in HIV, Determining the role of social reward learning in social anhedonia in first-episode psychosis using motivational interviewing as a probe in a perturbation-based neuroimaging approach, JHU Center for the Advancement of HIV Neurotherapeutics (JHU CAHN), Evaluation of Neurobiological Mechanisms Mediating the Effect of Immune Activation on Neurocognitive Impairment and the Role of Psychosocial Factors Among Women Living with HIV, UAB-MISS MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study, Clinical Research Sites for the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MACS/WIHS-CCS), Neurocognitive Trajectories in Older Adults with COVID-19 in the Deep South
OpenAlex ID: W4399640438