Although both WBRT and SRS are indispensable in the management of BM, two trials demonstrated a negative impact of WBRT on the patients’ neurocognitive function (NCF) at 3–4 months after the treatment, and these results set the trend toward the SRS-alone strategy . It is of note that the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) was used in both of those studies, and this test is considered to have adequate properties to assess the NCF after brain irradiation; the English version of the HVLT-R has been increasingly used in trials dealing with brain metastasis and other brain tumors .