Neuropsychological and Emotional Processing Data from an Indian Acoustic Schwannoma Cohort

A 44-patient cohort from a South Indian medical center was assessed for neurocognitive and emotional processing deficits related to acoustic schwannoma. The dataset includes results from standardized neuropsychological tests and a custom emotion processing task, analyzed using SAS. The data was published by Vidya Nottamkandath on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Correlating neuropsychological test scores with sociodemographic factors like years of education.
• Analyzing emotional processing deficits in patients with right hemispheric cerebellar-pontine angle lesions.
• Investigating the relationship between clinical factors and impairments in visuospatial construction, memory, attention, and executive functions.
• Benchmarking cognitive profiles of acoustic schwannoma patients against healthy control groups in other studies.

Strengths

• Includes data from 44 patients with a mean age of 43.86 years and median education of 12 years.
• Uses standardized neuropsychological batteries (Post-Graduate Institute Battery, Wechsler Memory Scale III, NIMHANS Battery) and a custom emotion task.
• Provides specific clinical context: all patients were right-handed adults of Indian origin with acoustic schwannomas, and 54.5% had right hemispheric lesions.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (109.0 KB), indicating a limited sample size for broad generalization.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Vidya Nottamkandath.

Collection Method

Prospective cross-sectional study with consecutive sampling from a referral and tertiary care medical center in South India.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 11:55:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South India