Status:

WITHDRAWN

Transcranial Stimulation During Sleep to Improve Cognition in Epilepsy

Lead Sponsor:

NYU Langone Health

Conditions:

Epilepsy

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-70 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Aim 1: Determine whether sleep enhances learning across a range of cognitive domains in healthy subjects. Aim 2: Determine whether low-frequency transcranial stimulation (TCS) delivered during slow w...

Detailed Description

Epilepsy and cognitive dysfunction Recent investigations suggest that more than 60% of patients with epilepsy suffer cognitive impairment, such as memory, attentional and executive dysfunction (Elger ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age between 18-70 years
  • Must score 22 or more on the MoCA.
  • Must be able to provide informed consent.
  • Must be fluent in English.
  • Diagnosis of focal epilepsy

Exclusion

  • Patient has a progressive or unstable neurological or systemic disease
  • Patient has a history of severe traumatic brain injury or prior brain surgery with skull defect
  • Contraindictations to TCS, including metal in the head or implanted brain medical devices
  • Pregnancy
  • Any implanted electrical medical device, including pacers and implanted cardiac defibrillators
  • History of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, other psychosis, rapid-cycling bipolar illness, alcohol/drug abuse within the past year
  • History of dementia
  • History of known sleep disorder
  • Additional Exclusion Criteria
  • Ictal Focus over the F3 or F4 field
  • Clinical or electrographic evidence of frequent nocturnal seizures, as determined with recent (\<2 year) ambulatory EEG.
  • Generalized epilepsy
  • Epilepsy subjects will be identified and consented from the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. In addition to the inclusion and exclusion criteria above, epilepsy subjects must meet the following criteria:

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 28 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 27 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02268591

Start Date

May 28 2013

End Date

May 27 2014

Last Update

March 15 2018

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