Early Life Trauma and Social Processing in HIV: The Role of Neuroendocrine Factors and Inflammation.

Objective: Early life trauma (ELT) and HIV are associated with social processing deficits. In people with HIV (PWH), we examined whether facial emotion identification accuracy differs by ELT and whether neuroendocrine factors including cortisol, oxytocin (OT), and arginine vasopressin, and/or immune system measures play a role in the ELT-performance association.

Methods: We used secondary data from the placebo condition of a pharmacologic challenge study in PWH.