Patients should have social cognitive disorders that show by means of problems in emotion recognition, perspective taking, ToM, showing empathy, or behaviour.
Patients should have a neurological disorder; stroke (including patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage), Multiple sclerosis (MS), both relapsing remitting, primary and secondary progressive variants, Brain tumours (meningioma's, low grade gliomas) and other categories of neurological disorders including brain damage: (i.e. infections (meningitis, encephalitis), post anoxic encephalopathy, adult survivors of childhood brain tumours).
Patients should be aged between 18 and 75
Patients should be in the chronic stage (\> 6 months post-acute injuries) or their medical condition should be relatively stable (for patients with a slow progressive conditions), to be judged by the treating medical or psychological specialist, in order to be able to profit from treatment for a reasonable time period.
You may not be if
Serious neurodegenerative or psychiatric conditions (including addiction) interfering with treatment
Incapacity to act, to be judged by the neuropsychologist and/or neurologist
Serious cognitive problems (aphasia, neglect, amnesia, dementia) and/or serious behavioural problems (aggression, apathy) interfering with treatment, to be judged by neuropsychologist.
Serious (other) medical conditions or physical inability hindering patients to come to the hospital/rehabilitation centre
Not being available of a close other (life partner, family member, close friend) who can fill out the proxy questionnaires
Not willing to give permission to send important/unexpected findings to the general practitioner.
Unexpected progression of disease during the study can be a reason to exclude the patient
Not sufficient command of the Dutch Language.
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