Cognitive and Mental Changes in Patients with Brain Tumor after Surgery

Afsaneh Zarghi^{1, 2,} , Alireza Zali³, Mehdi Tehranidost², Mohhamadreza Zarindast² and Farzad Ashrafi⁴

¹Department of Neuroscience, Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

²Institute for cognitive science studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran

³Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁴Department of Neurology, Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Cite this paper:
Afsaneh Zarghi, Alireza Zali, Mehdi Tehranidost, Mohhamadreza Zarindast and Farzad Ashrafi. Cognitive and Mental Changes in Patients with Brain Tumor after Surgery. Global Journal of Surgery. 2013; 1(3):37-40. doi: 10.12691/js-1-3-7

Abstract

Introduction and objective: the patients with brain tumor are affected with cognitive and mental changes when undergo surgery and need treatment and rehabilitation. The objective of this study is evaluation of the surgery's effect on these impairments. Method and material: the presented cross-sectional study is done on 94 patients with brain tumor and MMSE, Beck depression, and anxiety tests were used for their cognitive and mental evaluation, before and after the surgery. Results: a significant difference were noticed in MMSE, Beck depression, and anxiety tests' scores, before and after the surgery (p<0.000). Conclusions: the surgery can lead into changes on patients' mental and cognitive status and there is a need on evaluation of these impairments before and after surgery, and in case of noticing the treatment and rehabilitation is needed in order to promote the life quality and survival.

Keywords:
cognitive mental surgery brain tumor

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