Ph. D. Project
Title:
Social cognition in low grade glioma
Dates:
2024/10/01 - 2027/09/30
Supervisor(s): 
Fabien RECH , Luc TAILLANDIER
Description:
Diffuse low grade glioma (DLGG) are a specific disease between oncology and neurosciences.
Troubles in social cognition have been few studied. There are nevertheless frequent and might have a negative
impact on the global cognitive functioning by slowing the socioprofessional rehabilitation. Those troubles might
degrade the quality of life of patients. We propose here to 1/study the evolution of the trouble in social
cognition in a population of patients followed for a DLGG by focusing on mentalization and prosody 2/correlate
those troubles with quality of life at each step of the disease 3/ assess the neural basis of mentalization and
prosody.
We make the hypothesis that patient with best performance in social cognition have a better score in quality of
life and that some treatment might alter the studied parameters (radiotherapy) whereas other might preserve
or improve them (surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy).
Keywords:
social cognition, quality of life, diffuse low grade glioma, prosody, theory of mind
Department(s): 
Biology, Signals and Systems in Cancer and Neuroscience