Publications by authors named "H Brissart"

Work difficulties are a primary issue of multiple sclerosis (MS). This is because disease onset usually occurs during a time when establishing a career and employment is of paramount importance. The MSWDQ-23 (Multiple Sclerosis Work Difficulties Questionnaire) was developed to assess work difficulties in MS.

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Background: Memory deficits are a major burden in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), contributing to the impaired quality of life of patients. Short- and long-term efficacy of memory remediation in TLE is still debated. The aim of our study was to assess the short- and long-term efficacy of a cognitive remediation program, COMETE (COgnitive Rehabilitation of MEmory in Temporal Epilepsy), targeting specifically episodic memory in patients with TLE.

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Objective: Recent voxel-based lesion symptom mapping (VLSM) studies have identified a critical region for picture naming, located 3.4 to 6.1 cm from the temporal pole.

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Neuropsychological assessment is a mandatory part of the pre- and post-operative evaluation in pediatric epilepsy surgery. The neuropsychology task force of the ILAE - French Chapter aims to define a neuropsychological procedure consensus based on literature review and adapted for French practice. They performed a systematic review of the literature published between 1950 and 2023 on cognitive evaluation of individuals undergoing presurgical work-up and post-surgery follow-up and focused on the pediatric population aged 6-16.

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Patients with anterior temporal lobe (ATL) resection due to mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) have difficulties at identifying familiar faces and explicitly remembering newly learned faces but their ability to individuate unfamiliar faces remains largely unknown. Moreover, the extent to which their difficulties with familiar face identity recognition and learning is truly due to the ATL resection remains unknown. Here, we report a study of 24 MTLE patients and matched healthy controls tested with an extensive set of seven face and visual object recognition tasks (including three tasks evaluating unfamiliar face individuation) before and about 6 months after unilateral (nine left, 15 right) ATL resection.

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