View clinical trials related to Epilepsy.
Filter by:Attentional disorders have been reported in neuropsychological studies evaluating patients suffering from generalized idiopathic epilepsy, but the data are disparate (in terms of test protocol). We aim to describe attentional and executive function disorder in IGE thanks to the Epitrack scale, validated in this specific population. Our secondary objective is to study the dynamic of cortical activity during an attentional task (the ANT), in order to describe the alteration of cortical networks in epileptic patients presenting with attentional disturbance.
This study will enroll patients with epilepsy who are being evaluated for epilepsy surgery and have electrodes implanted in the brain and/or have electrodes on the scalp. Additionally, this study will recruit normal and online controls (participants who do not have epilepsy). Participants will be asked to participate in 1 to 2 (30-90 minutes) daily sessions designed to test aspects of human cognition such as memory, speech, language, feeling, movement, attention, sound perception, and emotions. Generally, this will involve working on a computer, looking at pictures or watching videos, and answering questions. Additionally, participants may be asked to be hooked up to additional equipment such as eye tracker, electrical stimulator, heart rate monitor, sweat monitor or other non-invasive equipment. The overall aim of this study is to use human intracranial electrophysiology (the recording of the electrical activity of the human brain) to study localization and function of the human brain.
Social cognition, which refers to the ability to interpret social information and behave accordingly in a social environment, is crucial in everyday life. But this ability has been shown to be altered in patients with epilepsy, especially in medial temporal lobe epilepsy, which leads to a deterioration in the patient's quality of life. However, the mechanisms of those deficiencies remain largely unknown. The Team objective is to achieve a structural and functional cartography of the social cognition network in 20 healthy subjects and 20 patients with drug-resistant medial temporal lobe epilepsy (before and one year after resective surgery of the epileptogenic focus). Social cognition deficiencies will be assessed using a specifically dedicated neuropsychological assessment validated in French (Batteries de Cognition Sociale BCS). Brain structural analyses will be performed on a 3-Tesla MRI (3T MRI), including an anatomical T1 sequence, a High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) to assess the morphology and macrostructural characteristics of long and short white matter tracts involved in social cognition, and quantitative MRI and Hybrid Diffusion Imaging (HYDI) to assess their microstructure. Functional connectivity will be assessed using an ultra-high-field 7-Tesla MRI (7T MRI), with acquisition in resting state and during specific social cognition tasks. Joint analysis of structural and functional connectivity will enable the team to assess the alterations of social cognition networks in patients with epilepsy and their reorganisations after epilepsy surgery.
In this project, the aim is to recruit patients with drug resistant epilepsy and those suffering from migraine. Interestingly, patients suffering from epilepsy are also more often reporting to suffer from migraine. The pathobiology is understudied, but it is believed that both etiologies results from brain networks changes. A clinical certified 7T Terra Siemens scanner will be employed to assess in all participants (including healthy controls) how the microstructure differs in disease specific areas. Patients will further be clinically assessed as well as undergo questionnaires.
This is an observational study for data collection from subjects diagnosed with Epilepsy/intractable seizures. The Neuroliten MVP System will not be used for patient management or treatment decisions.
This study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of SPN-817 in adults with treatment resistant seizures
To test whether measures of cortical excitability derived from motor cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in patients with traumatic brain injury reflect heightened excitability relative to healthy controls and whether such measures can be used to distinguish patients with post-traumatic epilepsy from patients with head trauma but no epilepsy
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of an evidence-based mental health intervention (Common Elements Treatment Approach) on medication adherence, behavioral improvement and clinical outcomesamong adults taking medication for hypertension, diabetes and epilepsy using a two-arm randomized wait-list controlled trial among adult refugees in Mae La camp, Thailand.
About 30% of persons with epilepsy have seizures that do not respond to drugs. The ketogenic diet is an effective treatment option for them, but this high fat diet is strict and difficult to maintain. The properties of gliflozins, which often are used to treat type 2 diabetes, make them a potential replacement for the ketogenic diet. This pilot study will determine whether gliflozins induce ketosis and could be used to treat adults with epilepsy safely.
Study the mechanisms underlying action recognition and execution