Marike Donders-Kamphuis

• Clinical linguist & PhD-student at Erasmus MC

Background The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and cognition are important indicators for the quality of survival in patients with high-grade glioma (HGG). However, data on long-term survivors and their caregivers are scarce. We aim to investigate the interaction between cognition and HRQoL in long-term survivors, their caregivers’ evaluatio...

Background Neuro-oncology patients and caregivers should have equitable access to rehabilitation, supportive-, and palliative care. To investigate existing issues and potential solutions, we surveyed neuro-oncology professionals to explore current barriers and facilitators to screening patients’ needs and referral to services. Methods Members of t...

Introduction Awake craniotomy is increasingly used to resect intrinsic brain tumors while preserving language. The level of musical training might affect the speed and extend of postoperative language recovery, as increased white matter connectivity in the corpus callosum is described in musicians compared to non-musicians. Methods In this cohort...

Background: Traditionally, surgical removal of glioblastoma is performed with general anaesthesia but a recent meta-analysis revealed that awake surgery in glioblastoma resulted in better surgical outcomes than non-awake surgery. Preoperative severe aphasia is one of the exclusion criteria for awake surgery because of difficulties in intraoperative...

Background Awake craniotomy is used to resect tumor while preserving language. However, differences between patients in post-operative speech/language outcome are observed despite careful intra-operative monitoring. Literature describes improved performance in language tasks during cognitive tests in musicians. Moreover increased white matter conne...

BACKGROUND Although prognosis is poor in high-grade glioma (HGG) patients, some become a long-term survivor (LTS). Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and cognition are seen as indicators for quality of survival in HGG but data in LTS and their caregivers are scarce. We aim to investigate cognition and HRQOL in LTS with evaluation by their proxi...

BACKGROUND In glioma surgery, awake craniotomy with Direct Electrical Stimulation (DES) is increasingly becoming the gold standard treatment to preserve language, cognition and motor function and to optimize extent of resection. Computer programming is historically seen as an integration of cognition, language, and mathematics but an intraoperative...