Cognitive Rehabilitation in Patients with Gliomas and Other Brain Tumors: State of the Art

Table 1

Principal characteristics of study population.

Investigators (year, name)	Design		Population
Maschio et al. (2015) [13]	Observational study	16	4 HGG, 2 GBM, 5 LGG, 2 meningioma (MEN), 3 metastasis (MET), related epilepsy; Age > 18 y
Yang et al. (2014) [14]	Randomized control trial	38	5 glioblastoma (GBM), 2 astrocytoma (AST), 10 MEN, 6 MET, 15 other
Zucchella et al. (2013) [15]	Randomized control trial	58	25 HGG, 7 LGG, 16 MEN, 5 other
Hassler et al. (2010) [16]	Clinical trial	11	6 GBM, 5 LGG
Gehring et al. (2009) [17]	Randomized control trial	140	117 LGG, 23 HGG; Age > 18 y
Locke et al. (2008) [18]	Randomized control trial	19 patient-caregiver dyads	13 HGG, 6 LGG before or upon initiation of radiation therapy; Age > 18 y; presence of 1 caregiver
Sherer et al. (1997) [19]	Retrospective study	13	1 GBM, 9 LGG, 1 embryonal choriocarcinoma, 1 pineoblastoma, 1 anaplastic ependymoma

Principal characteristics of studies taken into consideration are in chronological order of publication.
HGG: high-grade glioma; GBM: glioblastoma; MEN: meningioma; MET: metastasis; AST: astrocytoma; LGG: low-grade glioma.