“…By contrast, other studies pointed to significantly impaired sociocognitive functioning even before any treatment has started in brain tumor patients [88,94]. Likewise, some posttreatment studies reported relevant impairments [87,118,122,130], some regionspecific [80,95,101] (e.g., mainly frontal and insular regions). By contrast, other investigations reported no clinically relevant or only minor impairment of sociocognitive functioning in brain tumor patients even after treatment [81,96,98,111,120,127].…”