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Assessing Preoperative Hope and Expectations Related to Functional Neurosurgery: A New Questionnaire
2021-05-25
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<h4>Background: </h4> Despite successful functional neurosurgery, patients suffering from epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease may experience postoperative psychological distress and social maladjustments. Difficulties in coping with postoperative changes, even positive ones, have shown to be related to patients’ presurgery cognitive representations (i.e., expectations, hope, abstract vs. concrete representations). The...
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- c9d7ec09-4b6c-525c-a2d9-502b9795d15a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-558755/v1
