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INTRODUCTION Although developed initially for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), cognitive rehabilitation training (CRT) has expanded its use to include patients suffering from a variety of neurocognitive disorders including neurologic malignancies. The Brain Fitness Center (BFC) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) is a cognitive rehabilitation clinic that offers computer-based cognitive training programs as an adjunctive rehabilitation resource for a diverse patient population with cognitive complaints. METHODS Using a retrospective analysis of data from the BFC at WRNMMC, our study analyzed forty patients with primary brain tumors who had completed both symptom self-report questionnaires and cognitive assessments at the BFC. Self-report questionnaires included the neurobehavioral symptom inventory (NSI) and headache symptom inventory (HIT-6) while cognitive assessments were done using the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM). Our study examined the relationship between subjective cognitive complaints, headache severity, neuropsychiatric symptoms and objective cognitive performance before and after initial CRT. The influence of high vs low grade tumors was also evaluated. RESULTS Our analysis demonstrated that increased number of affective symptoms, particularly self-reported irritability, were the strongest predictors of baseline, objective cognitive performance (r= -.377, p=0.008). Patient self-reported forgetfulness, but not overall subjective cognitive complaints, was also negatively correlated with objective cognitive performance (r= - 0.353, p= 0.020). A mean difference in objective cognitive performance between high grade and low grade tumors was also found (p=0.003). CONCLUSIONS Our results point to potential patient-level factors which could predict benefit from CRT including self-reported irritability, self-reported forgetfulness, and tumor grade. Further prospective studies will help to examine the true benefit of sustained CRT, and the subset of patients with CNS neoplasms most likely to benefit from this training.

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NCOG-38. PREDICTORS OF COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY BRAIN TUMORS: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAIN FITNESS CENTER (BFC) AT WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER