Marion Barberis

I specialize in the assessment of acquired cognitive-language disorders. I work in Neurovascular Intensive Care, where I assess patients immediately after stroke, and in Neurosurgery, where I perform cognitive monitoring and intraoperative mapping of patients undergoing awake surgery for low-grade gliomas.

Mild cognitive disorders can hinder or even prevent patients from returning to work. In 2021, supervised by Prof. Emmanuel Mandonnet, we evaluated the resumption of professional activity of 54 patients operated on for low-grade gliomas. A severe drop in semantic and phonemic fluency tasks was associated with difficulties in returning to work. However, defining a precise threshold value remained complicated: it seemed necessary to determine new verbal fluency measures taking into account the temporal distribution of responses and the strategies used.

We have therefore decided in 2023 to continue our study with glioma patients, and to extend it to patients with minor strokes, who also have discrete cognitive disorders that can impact professional life. Supervised by Prof. Emmanuel Mandonnet, neurosurgeon, and by Prof. Mikael Mazighi, neurologist, our aim is to develop a cognitive index to beter predict the ability to return to work.