Epilepsy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Connectivity Analysis for Investigation of Auditory Impairment in Epilepsy
Background:
- People with epilepsy often have auditory processing disorders that affect their ability
to hear clearly and may cause problems with understanding speech and other kinds of
verbal communication. Researchers are interested in developing better ways of studying
what parts of the brain are affected by hearing disorders and epilepsy, and they need
better clinical tests to measure how individuals process sound. These tests will allow
researchers to examine and evaluate the effects of epilepsy and related disorders on
speech and communication.
- A procedure called a magnetoencephalography (MEG) can be used to measure the electrical
currents involved in brain activity. Researchers are interested in learning whether MEG
can be used to detect differences in the processing of simple sounds in patients with
epilepsy, both with and without hearing impairments.
Objectives:
- To measure brain activity in hearing impaired persons with epilepsy and compare the results
with those from people with normal hearing and epilepsy as well as people with normal hearing
and no epilepsy. This research is performed in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Hospital and
epilepsy patients must be candidates for surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Eligibility:
- Individuals between 18 to 55 years of age who (1) have epilepsy and have hearing
impairments, (2) have epilepsy but do not have hearing impairments, or (3) are healthy
volunteers who have neither epilepsy nor hearing impairments.
- Participants with epilepsy must have developed seizures after 10 years of age, and must
be candidates for grid implantation surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital..
Design:
- This study will require one visit of approximately 4 to 6 hours.
- Participants will be screened with a full physical examination and medical history,
along with a basic hearing test.
- Participants will have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the brain, followed by
a MEG scan to record magnetic field changes produced by brain activity.
- During MEG recording, participants will be asked to listen to various sounds and make
simple responses (pressing a button, moving your hand or speaking) in response to sounds
heard through earphones. The MEG procedure should take between 1 and 2 hours.
- Treatment at NIH is not provided as part of this protocol.
Objective: Auditory processing disorders are common in patients with epilepsy and adversely
impact verbal communication. The neural bases of auditory disorders remain poorly understood,
impeding development of objective clinical tests. The overall goal of this project is to
develop an objective clinical measure of auditory processing using computational modeling of
functional brain connectivity. To address this goal, we will use novel functional
connectivity methods to analyze magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and intracranial
electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings.
Study Population: We will acquire MEG data from 48 patients with intractable epilepsy prior
to their undergoing grid electrode placement for neurosurgery evaluation at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. ECoG data will be acquired at JHU under an ongoing study. Approximately half the
patients will have auditory processing impairments. We will also acquire MEG from 20 healthy
control subjects with no auditory processing impairment.
Design: Three planned studies use a within-subject, repeated measures design. The MEG studies
will be conducted before patients have subdural electrodes implanted for intracranial
mapping. The MEG studies and connectivity analyses will be performed at NIH. The ECoG studies
will take place at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Data will be acquired using the same auditory
stimuli and tasks for both the MEG and ECoG parts of the study. The same functional
connectivity analyses will be performed on the two data sets.
Outcome measures: The main outcome measures will be (1) functional connectivity patterns in
intracranial ECoG data that differentiate epilepsy patients with auditory impairments from
those without auditory impairments; and (2) corresponding patterns in MEG data. Secondary
outcome measures will consist of relationships between the intracranial ECoG connectivity
measures and the MEG connectivity measures.
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