anguage and EEG characteristics in brain tumour patients
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Brain tumours: low-grade gliomas and meningiomas
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28627
- Lead Sponsor
- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- Brief Summary
A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Inclusion Criteria
Low-grade glioma group:
- Diagnosis of a presumed low-grade glioma in the language dominant hemisphere
Exclusion Criteria
For all 3 groups:
- Non-native speaker of Dutch or insufficient command of the Dutch language
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Language abilities of low-grade glioma and meningioma patients before surgery, shortly after surgery, and at the long-term follow-up. <br /><br>- The relation between language functioning and resting-state EEG characteristics in brain tumour patients.<br /><br>- Pre-operative EEG characteristics that predict language outcome after brain tumour surgery.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Functional network characteristics of resting-state brain activity that are associated with specific linguistic deficits.<br /><br>- Associations between language and performance in other cognitive domains.<br /><br>- The relation between the severity of the language disorder and the quality of life in brain tumour patients before and after surgery.