Publications and communications of Héléna CASSOL

Maillard, B., Boutaayamou, M., CASSOL, H., Pirnay, L., & Kaux, J.-F. (February 2024). Gait Analysis of Hemiparetic Adult Patients with a Quadripod Cane and a Rolling Cane. Healthcare, 12, 464. doi:10.3390/healthcare12040464

Li, Y., Chen, Y., Martial, C., Shen, M., CASSOL, H., Zhou, X., Yu, J., Ni, C., lI, M., Hu, N., Gosseries, O., Laureys, S., & Di, H. (2024). Chinese translation and validation of the Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1201416

Bicego, A. Y., CASSOL, H., Jessica Simon, Fritz, P., Simona Abagnale, Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Laureys, S., & Martial, C. (2023). Personality traits and pattern of beliefs of near-death(-like) experiencers. Frontiers in Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1124739

Martial, C., CASSOL, H., Slater, M., Bourdin, P., Mensen, A., Ramon, O., Laureys, S.* , & Nunez Novo, P.*. (2023). EEG signature of out-of-body experiences induced by virtual reality: a novel methodological approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Martial, C., Poirrier, A.-L., Pottier, L., CASSOL, H., Mortaheb, S., Panda, R., Lopez, M., Perrin, T., Boilevin, A., Gosseries, O., & Laureys, S. (2023). From nose to brain: the effect of lemon inhalation observed by whole brain voxel to voxel functional connectivity. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.012

Rousseau, A.-F., DAMS, L., Massart, Q., CHOQUER, L., Cassol, H., Laureys, S., Misset, B., Dardenne, N., Gosseries, O., & Martial, C. (2023). Incidence of near-death experiences in patients surviving a prolonged critical illness and their long-term impact: a prospective observational study. Critical Care, 27, 76. doi:10.1186/s13054-023-04348-2

Bicego, A. Y., Delmal, P., Ledoux, D., Faymonville, M.-E., MAERTENS DE NOORDHOUT, B., Alfredo Cerasoli, Cassol, H., Gosseries, O., & Vanhaudenhuyse, A. (2022). Self-Hypnosis for Phantom Limb Pain: A Multiple-Case Study. OBM Integrative and Complimentary Medicine. doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2203040

Aubinet, C.* , Cassol, H.* , BODART, O.* , Sanz, L., Wannez, S., Martial, C., THIBAUT, A., Martens, G., Carrière, M., Gosseries, O., LAUREYS, S.* , & Chatelle, C.*. (September 2021). Simplified Evaluation of CONsciousness Disorders (SECONDs) in individuals with severe brain injury: A validation study. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 64 (5), 101432. doi:10.1016/j.rehab.2020.09.001
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Sanz, L.* , Aubinet, C.* , Cassol, H., BODART, O., Wannez, S., Bonin, E., Barra, A., Lejeune, N., Martial, C., Chatelle, C., LEDOUX, D., Laureys, S., Thibaut, A., & Gosseries, O. (2021). SECONDs administration guidelines: A fast tool for assessing consciousness in brain-injured patients. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (168), 61968. doi:10.3791/61968
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Estraneo, A., Magliacano, A., Fiorenza, S., Formisano, R., Grippo, A., Angelakis, E., Cassol, H., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., Lamberti, G., Noé, E., Bagnato, S., Edlow, B. L., Chatelle, C., Lejeune, N., Veeramuthu, V., Bartolo, M., Mattia, D., Toppi, J., ... Trojano, L. (2021). Risk factors for 2-year mortality in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: An international multicentre study. European Journal of Neurology. doi:10.1111/ene.15143

Martial, C., Fontaine, G., Gosseries, O., Carhart-Harris, R., Timmermann, C., Laureys, S., & Cassol, H. (2021). Losing the Self in Near-Death Experiences: The Experience of Ego-Dissolution. Brain Sciences, 11 (7). doi:10.3390/brainsci11070929

Martial, C., Greyson, B., Simon, J., Puttaert, N., Gosseries, O., CHARLAND-VERVILLE, V., LAUREYS, S., & Cassol, H. (2021). Response to “A new scale to assess near-death experiences” [Letter to the Editor]. Journal of Near-Death Studies.

Peinkhofer, C.* , Martial, C.* , Cassol, H., Laureys, S., & Kondziella, D. (2021). The evolutionary origin of near-death experiences: a systematic investigation. Brain Communications, 3 (3), 132. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcab132
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Martial, C., Simon, J., Puttaert, N., Gosseries, O., CHARLAND-VERVILLE, V., Nyssen, A.-S., Greyson, B., LAUREYS, S., & Cassol, H. (2020). The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale: Development and psychometric validation. Consciousness and Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2020.103049

Martial, C., Cassol, H., & LAUREYS, S. (2020). De NDE als opkomend wetenschappelijk onderzoeksgebied. In Pim van Lommel, Het geheim van Elysion: 45 jaar studie naar nabij-de-dood-ervaringen over bewustzijn in liefde zonder waarheen. Van Warven Produkties.

Aubinet, C., Chatelle, C., Gillet, S., Lejeune, N., Cassol, H., HENNEN, N., Thunus, M., Laureys, S., & Majerus, S. (May 2020). The Brief Evaluation of Receptive Aphasia test for the detection of language impairment in severely brain-injured patients [Poster presentation]. 6th Congress of the European Association of Neurology, Paris, France.

Cassol, H., Bonin, E., Bastin, C., Puttaert, N., Charland-Verville, V., Laureys, S., & Martial, C. (May 2020). Near-Death Experience Memories Include More Episodic Components Than Flashbulb Memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (888). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00888

Charland-Verville, V.* , Ribeiro de Paula, D.* , Martial, C., Cassol, H., Antonopoulos, G., Blaine, C., Soddu, A.* , & Laureys, S.*. (2020). Characterization of near-death experiences using text mining analyses: a preliminary study. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0227402
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Martial, C., Cassol, H., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (2020). Near-death experience as a probe to explore (disconnected) consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.12.010

Aubinet, C., Cassol, H., Gosseries, O., Bahri, M. A., Larroque, S. K., Majerus, S., Martial, C., Martens, G., Carrière, M., Chatelle, C., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2020). Brain Metabolism but Not Gray Matter Volume Underlies the Presence of Language Function in the Minimally Conscious State (MCS): MCS+ Versus MCS− Neuroimaging Differences. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 34 (2), 172-184. doi:10.1177/1545968319899914

Bonin, E., Lejeune, N., Thibaut, A., Cassol, H., Antonopoulos, G., Wannez, S., Martial, C., Schnakers, C., LAUREYS, S., & Chatelle, C. (2020). Nociception Coma Scale Revised allows to identify patients with preserved neural basis for pain experience. Journal of Pain. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2019.11.004

Carrière, M., Cassol, H., Aubinet, C., Panda, R., THIBAUT, A., Larroque, S., Simon, J., Martial, C., Bahri, M. A., Chatelle, C., Martens, G., Chennu, S., LAUREYS, S., & Gosseries, O. (2020). Auditory localisation should be considered as a sign of minimally conscious state based on multimodal findings. Brain Communications. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcaa195

Estraneo, A., Fiorenza, S., Magliacano, A., Formisano, R., Mattia, D., Grippo, A., Angelakis, E., Cassol, H., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., Lamberti, G., Noe, E., Bagnato, S., Edlow, B., Chatelle, C., Lejeune, N., Veeramuthu, V., Bartolo, M., Toppi, J., ... Trojano, L. (2020). Multicenter prospective study on predictors of short-term outcome in disorders of consciousness. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000010254

Martens, G., Kroupi, E., Bodien, Y., Frasso, G., Annen, J., Cassol, H., Barra, A., Martial, C., Gosseries, O., Lejeune, N., Soria-Frisch, A., Ruffini, G., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2020). Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of network-based frontoparietal tDCS in patients with severe brain injury: A randomized controlled trial. NeuroImage: Clinical. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102426

Cassol, H., Martial, C., & Laureys, S. (2019). Les expériences de mort imminente. In A. Dechene & B. Dupont, Crises. Liège, Belgium: ULiège - Université de Liège.

Martial, C., Mensen, A., CHARLAND-VERVILLE, V., VANHAUDENHUYSE, A., Rentmeister, D., Bahri, M. A., Cassol, H., Englebert, J., Gosseries, O., LAUREYS, S., & Faymonville, M.-E. (2019). Neurophenomenology of near-death experience memory in hypnotic recall: a within-subject EEG study. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50601-6

Cassol, H. (05 September 2019). The self-defining aspect of near-death experiences [Paper presentation]. 27th conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Athens, Greece.

Bicego, A. Y., Grégoire, C., Cassol, H., FAYMONVILLE, M.-E., Nyssen, A.-S., Rousseaux, F., JERUSALEM, G., Laureys, S., Bragard, I., & VANHAUDENHUYSE, A. (30 May 2019). Study of the impact of non-pharmacological techniques (self-hypnosis/self-care) on cognitive complaints in cancer patients [Paper presentation]. Hypnosis New Generation, Budapest, Hungary.

Bicego, A. Y., Grégoire, C., Cassol, H., FAYMONVILLE, M.-E., Nyssen, A.-S., Rousseaux, F., JERUSALEM, G., LAUREYS, S., Bragard, I., & VANHAUDENHUYSE, A. (14 May 2019). Learning self-hypnosis/self-care improves cognitive complaints in cancer patients [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Liège, Belgium.

Cassol, H., Martial, C., Annen, J., Martens, G., Charland-Verville, V., Majerus, S., & Laureys, S. (14 May 2019). Vivid memories from hell: A systematic analysis of distressing near death experience accounts [Poster presentation]. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Liege, Belgium.

Sanz, L., & Cassol, H. (28 March 2019). Aux confins de la conscience: intelligence artificielle et expériences de mort imminente [Paper presentation]. Formation continue pour médecins généralistes, Waimes, Belgium.

Cassol, H., D'Argembeau, A., Charland-Verville, V., Laureys, S.* , & Martial, C.*. (01 March 2019). Memories of near-death experiences: are they self-defining? Neuroscience of Consciousness, 5 (1). doi:10.1093/nc/niz002
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Martial, C.* , Cassol, H.* , Charland-Verville, V., Pallavicini, C., Sanz, C., Zamberlan, F., Martínez Vivot, R., Erowid, F., Erowid, E., LAUREYS, S., Greyson, B., & Tagliazucchi, E. (2019). Neurochemical models of near-death experiences: a large-scale study based on the semantic similarity of written reports. Consciousness and Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.011
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Aubinet, C., Panda, R., Larroque, S. K., Cassol, H., Bahri, M. A., Carrière, M., Wannez, S., Majerus, S., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2019). Reappearance of Command-Following Is Associated With the Recovery of Language and Internal-Awareness Networks: A Longitudinal Multiple-Case Report. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 13 (8), 10.3389/fnsys.2019.00008. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2019.00008

Cassol, H., Martial, C., Annen, J., Martens, G., Charland-Verville, V., Majerus, S., & Laureys, S. (2019). A systematic analysis of distressing near-death experience accounts. Memory, 27, 1122-1129. doi:10.1080/09658211.2019.1626438

Mortaheb, S., Annen, J., Chatelle, C., Cassol, H., Martens, G., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., & Laureys, S. (2019). A Graph Signal Processing Approach to Study High Density EEG Signals in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness. In A Graph Signal Processing Approach to Study High Density EEG Signals in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness. IEEE. doi:10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856436

Rizkallah, J., Annen, J., Modolo, J., Gosseries, O., Benquet, P., Mortaheb, S., Amoud, H., Cassol, H., Mheich, A., Thibaut, A., Chatelle, C., Hassan, M., Panda, R., Wendling, F., & Laureys, S. (2019). Decreased integration of EEG source-space networks in disorders of consciousness. NeuroImage: Clinical, 23, 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101841

Cassol, H., D'Argembeau, A., Charland-Verville, V., Laureys, S., & Martial, C. (19 October 2018). Near-death experiences Are they self-defining? [Poster presentation]. Belgian Brain Congress (BBC) 2018, Liege, Belgium.

Cassol, H. (2018). CERVEAU ET CONSCIENCE: QUE NOUS DIT LA RECHERCHE ET L'ÉTUDE DES EXPÉRIENCES DE MORT IMMINENTE ? [Paper presentation]. CONSCIOUSNESS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT OF SCIENCE, Strasbourg, France.

Aubinet, C., Murphy, L., Bahri, M. A., Larroque, S. K., Cassol, H., Annen, J., Carrière, M., Wannez, S., Thibaut, A., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (14 August 2018). Brain, behavior, and cognitive interplay in disorders of consciousness: A multiple case study. Frontiers in Neurology, 9 (665), 1-10. doi:10.3389/fneur.2018.00665

Timmermann, C., Roseman, L., Williams, L., Erritzoe, D., Martial, C., Cassol, H., LAUREYS, S., Nutt, D., & Carhart-Harris, R. (2018). DMT models the near-death experience. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01424

Aubinet, C., Panda, R., Cassol, H., Larroque, S. K., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (28 June 2018). A multiple case study investigating the sub-categorization of the minimally conscious state [Poster presentation]. 22nd annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC22), Krakow, Poland.

Martial, C., Cassol, H., CHARLAND-VERVILLE, V., Merckelbach, H., & LAUREYS, S. (June 2018). People reporting "near-death-like experiences" show a greater engagement in fantasy [Poster presentation]. International HBP Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Martial, C., Cassol, H., Charland-Verville, V., Merckelbach, H., & LAUREYS, S. (2018). Fantasy proneness correlates with the intensity of near-death experience. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00190

Wolff, A., Blandiaux, S., Cassol, H., Chatelle, C., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (2018). Evaluations comportementales chez les patients en état de conscience altérée. In C. Jourdan, F. Pellas, J. Luauté, B. Chevalier, ... X. de Boissezon, Etats de conscience altérée - Actualités diagnostiques, pronostiques et thérapeutiques. Montpellier, France: SAURAMPS MÉDICAL.

Annen, J., Frasso, G., Crone, J., Heine, L., Di Perri, C., Martial, C., Cassol, H., Demertzi, A., Naccache, L., & LAUREYS, S. (2018). Regional brain volumetry and brain function in severely brain-injured patients. Annals of Neurology. doi:10.1002/ana.25214

Cassol, H.* , Pétré, B.* , Degrange, S., Martial, C., Charland-Verville, V., Lallier, F., Bragard, I., Guillaume, M., & Laureys, S. (2018). Qualitative thematic analysis of the phenomenology of near-death experiences. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193001
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cassol, H., Aubinet, C., Thibaut, A., Wannez, S., Martial, C., Martens, G., & Laureys, S. (2018). Diagnostic, pronostic et traitements des troubles de la conscience. NPG : Neurologie, Psychiatrie, Gériatrie, 18. doi:10.1016/j.npg.2017.04.001

Cassol, H., Wolff, A., Chatelle, C., Gosseries, O., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2018). Conscience et états de conscience altérée. In Jourdan, C, Pellas, F, Luauté, J, Chevallier, J.-B, ... de Boissezon, X, Etats de conscience altérée (pp. 9-24). Montpellier, France: Sauramps MEDICAL.

Chatelle, C., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., Cassol, H., Aubinet, C., Carrière, M., Wolff, A., Martens, G., Barra, A., Martial, C., Blandiaux, S., Wannez, S., Charland-Verville, V., & Laureys, S. (2018). Fluctuation in behavioral responsiveness in severely brain-injured patients. European Journal of Neurology, 25 (2), 90–276.

Cassol, H., & Wolff, A. (09 November 2017). Evaluation multimodale de patients en état de conscience altérée [Paper presentation]. 2ème journée de rencontre des centres d’éveil France – Belgique, Lille, France.

Martial, C., Cassol, H., Antonopoulos, G., Charlier, T., Héros, J., Donneau, A.-F., Charland-Verville, V., & LAUREYS, S. (2017). Corrigendum: Temporality of Features in Near-Death Experience Narratives. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Martial, C., Cassol, H., Antonopoulos, G., Charlier, T., Héros, J., Donneau, A.-F., Charland-Verville, V., & Laureys, S. (2017). Temporality of Features in Near-Death Experience Narratives. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2017.00311

Cassol, H. (11 March 2017). Consciousness: Exploring brain activity in coma and other states of consciousness [Paper presentation]. The 5th Bern Network for Epilepsy, Sleep and Consciousness (BENESCO) Winter Research Meeting, Wengen, Switzerland.

Cassol, H., LEDOUX, D., Bruno, M.-A., Thibaut, A., Schnakers, C., VANHAUDENHUYSE, A., Demertzi, A., Wannez, S., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (March 2017). 2 Years outcome of patients in unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state and minimally conscious state [Poster presentation]. 12th world congress on brain injury, New Orleans, United States.

Cassol, H., Pétré, B., Degrange, S., Martial, C., Charland-Verville, V., Guillaume, M., & Laureys, S. (01 February 2017). Application of Qualitative Thematic Analysis to Near-Death Experiences [Poster presentation]. GIGA-Day, Liege, Belgium.

Martial, C., Charland-Verville, V., Cassol, H., Didone, V., Van der Linden, M., & Laureys, S. (2017). Intensity and memory characteristics of near-death experiences. Consciousness and Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.06.018

D'Argembeau, A., Cassol, H., Phillips, C., Balteau, E., Salmon, E., & Van der Linden, M. (2014). Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 646-652. doi:10.1093/scan/nst028

Stawarczyk, D., CASSOL, H., & D'Argembeau, A. (July 2013). Phenomenology of future-oriented mind-wandering episodes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 425. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00425