Social cognition and language in patients with gliomas: putting feelings into words?
- Conditions
- brain tumorglioma10029211
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON53289
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
- Patient with suspected glioma, i.e. low- or high-grade gliomas.
- Age older than 18 years
- Sufficient command of the Dutch language
- Being able to understand the instructions of the neuropscyhological
assessment and to mentally and physically sustain/endure the assessment; this
will be assessed in a consultation between treating physician (neurosurgeon)
and investigator (neuropsychologist).
Exclusion Criteria
- Serious neurodegenerative or psychiatric conditions (including addiction)
- Serious (other) medical conditions or physical inability hindering patients
to come to the hospital
- Patients who need to undergo emergency craniotomy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The main study parameters are outcomes on measures for social cognition and<br /><br>language.<br /><br><br /><br>Social cognition measures:<br /><br>- The Ekman 60 faces test of the Facial Expressions of Emotion Stimuli and<br /><br>Tests (emotion recognition)<br /><br>- Cartoons test (ToM)<br /><br>- Faux Past test (ToM, affective empathy).<br /><br><br /><br>Measures for language:<br /><br>- letter and category fluency (verbal fluency, executive control)<br /><br>- shortened version of the Boston Naming Test (visual confrontation naming)<br /><br>- ScreeLing (screening of linguistic deficits)<br /><br>- subtest of the Semantische Afasie Nederland (SAN) test (language<br /><br>comprehension). </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method