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Filter by:The primary objective of the study is to characterize seizures in participants with KCNT1-related epilepsy. The secondary objectives are to characterize head growth, symptom severity, neurocognitive and social functions, adaptive behavior, sleep, quality of life, caregiver burden, and mood in participants with KCNT1-related epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a common neurological disease, manifested in the sudden abnormal discharge of neurons leading to short-term brain dysfunction, has become the neurology after headache the second most common disease. In China, the prevalence of epilepsy is about 4.7-8.5 per 1,000, and more than 400,000 new cases of epilepsy are developed each year. Of these, 30% of patients were treated with ineffective medication, developing into a drug-incurable epilepsy that required surgery and other treatments. The most common type of epilepsy is temporal lobe epilepsy, while the common complication in temporal lobe epilepsy is hippocampal sclerosis, which often requires surgical removal. The incidence of inner temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis is increasing, but its exact cause and specific pathogenesis are still unclear, so clarifying its pathogenesis will contribute to the understanding of temporal lobe epilepsy and the improvement of surgical procedures. This study is intended to get single-cell transcriptome as well as spatial transcriptome data of temporal lobe and hippocampus samples. By studying gene expression change associated with epilepsy and hippocampus sclerosis, we intended to find possible prognostic-related molecules and to deepen understanding of pathological changes in epilepsy at the molecular level.
To assess the long-term safety and tolerability of XEN496 in pediatric subjects with KCNQ2 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (KCNQ2-DEE) who had participated in the primary study (XPF-009-301).
The goal is to provide a novel therapeutic option for temporal lobe epilepsy patients when focal impaired awareness seizures cannot be stopped by medications, surgical or laser ablation, or by neurostimulation. The goal is restore consciousness when seizures cannot be stopped. If successful, addition of bilateral thalamic stimulation to existing responsive neurostimulation to rescue consciousness would greatly alter clinical practice and patient outcomes. Importantly, previous approaches aim to stop seizures, whereas this study aims to use thalamic stimulation to improve a major negative consequence when seizures cannot be stopped. The potential impact extends beyond temporal lobe epilepsy to other seizure types, and may also extend more broadly to inform treatment of other brain disorders associated with impaired consciousness and cognition.
This is a pilot research study where language and working memory tasks will be used to study brain activities from children with epilepsy. Specifically for language assessment, a well-known MEG language protocol will be used and novel signal processing techniques will be applied. A widely utilized paradigm will be used to study memory function and adapt signal-processing techniques from previous literature for the processing and analysis of MEG signals collected during memory task. No treatment/intervention will be performed or evaluated in this pilot research study.
To evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of cenobamate as adjunctive treatment of refractory focal epilepsy
Many studies have reported a disparity in medication adherence among epileptic patients. In this population, Medication Possession Ratio (MPR) is an index of medication adherence. MPR is defined as the ratio of the number of days of treatment delivered to the number of days in the period of interest. No-adherents patients are defined by a MPR of less than 80% , in whom an increase in seizures and the rate of hospitalization can be observed. A pharmacist-led intervention and medication information to epileptic patients could improve patient medication adherence to antiepileptic drugs, and possibly decrease the frequency of seizures, hospitalizations and the health costs generated by these hospitalizations. This intervention could also improve patient knowledge about their medications. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led intervention on medication adherence of epileptic patients with the MPR. Secondary objectives include the comparison of medication adherence with health insurance score, the evaluation of patients knowledges about their medications, community pharmacists' satisfaction about community hospital network, the comparison of the seizure free patient rate and the comparison of the rate of patient in whom seizure have decreased by 50%
The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of NBI-921352 as adjunctive therapy for seizures in subjects with SCN8A Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy Syndrome (SCN8A-DEE).
The purpose of this study is to investigate insula structural connectivity in temporal epilepsy patients. Insula being at the interface of frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes, its structural organization reflects the brain function. We hypothetize that insular structural organization will be different according to the different subtypes of temporal epilepsy.
The purpose of this study is to understand how ketamine brings about dissociative symptoms.