Highlighting the lack of neuropsychologists and speech therapists in healthcare services towards an accurate (pre- and postoperative) cognitive assessment in low-grade glioma patients

Lucia Manso-Ortega; Garazi Bermudez; Iñigo Pomposo; Santiago Gil-Robles; Maite Miranda; Manuel Carreiras; Ileana Quiñones

doi:10.1002/pon.5968

Highlighting the lack of neuropsychologists and speech therapists in healthcare services towards an accurate (pre- and postoperative) cognitive assessment in low-grade glioma patients

Psychooncology. 2022 Jul;31(7):1261-1263. doi: 10.1002/pon.5968. Epub 2022 May 27.

Authors

Lucia Manso-Ortega^{1

2}, Garazi Bermudez^{3

4}, Iñigo Pomposo^{3

4}, Santiago Gil-Robles^{4

5}, Maite Miranda⁶, Manuel Carreiras^{1

2

7}, Ileana Quiñones¹

Affiliations

¹ Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), San Sebastián, Spain.
² University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bilbao, Spain.
⁴ Biocruces Research Institute, Bilbao, Spain.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Quironsalud, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Department of Rehabilitation, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bilbao, Spain.
⁷ IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.

PMID: 35593038
DOI: 10.1002/pon.5968

No abstract available

Keywords: brain tumor; cancer; cognitive assessment; cognitive impairment; low grade-glioma; neuropsychologists; neurosurgery; oncology; psycho-oncology; speech therapists.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain Neoplasms* / surgery
Cognition
Delivery of Health Care
Glioma* / therapy
Humans
Speech