ors, as well as ataxia, leg tremors, peripheral neuropathy progressing to weakness, and abnormal reflexes.
Patients may also experience difficulty concentrating, lose interest in daily activities, and become withdrawn. The degree of confusion and other cognitive difficulty may wax and wane, and the aphasia often seen in AD is usually absent in HIV/AIDS dementia.
Other conditions resulting from infection or deteriorating immune function in older patients are said to include: opportunistic infections or malignancies such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, tuberculosis, esophageal or recurrent genital candidiasis, toxoplasmosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Kaposi's sarcoma.
A fairly typical picture of the basic characteristics and symptoms associated with the condition can be found in Thompson, Kapila and Tecson's (1989) study of patients (N = 20) over the age of 60 who were diagnosed with HIV infection/AIDS from January 1985 to June 1988 1985 according to Center for Disease Control criteria group I-IV. Patients ages ranged
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