Clinical trials: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Early Surgical Intervention to Treat Epilepsy
The purpose of this trial is to compare the effectiveness of early surgical intervention for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy to continued treatment with antiepileptic drugs.
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Seizures
- Trial name
- ERSET (NCT00040326)
- Testing
- anteromesial temporal resection, antiepileptic drugs
- Where
- 12 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Language Mapping in Patients With Epilepsy
This study will examine how certain language skills, such as naming objects, understanding spoken language and reading are organized in the brain and how they are affected by seizures.
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Partial Epilepsy
- Trial name
- NCT00706160
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 153 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Seizures, Epilepsy
Investigating Epilepsy: Screening and Evaluation
Background: Epilepsy affects about 1 percent of the U.S. population. Most people with epilepsy respond well to medicine, but some do not.
- Conditions
- Seizures, Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Partial Epilepsy
- Trial name
- NCT03478852
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Surgery as a Treatment for Medically Intractable Epilepsy
Background: Drug resistant epilepsy is the term used to describe epilepsy that cannot be controlled by medication. Many people whose seizures do not respond to medication will respond to surgical treatment, relieving seizures…
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Partial Epilepsy
- Trial name
- NCT01273129
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
Light Scattering Spectroscopy to Determine Brain Tumors
This study will use light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) to analyze brain tissue removed from patients during brain surgery to determine if this new technology can be used to differentiate between normal and cancerous cells.
- Trial name
- NCT00067418
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Amygdalo-Hippocampal Epilepsy
EASINESS-TRIAL - Enhancing Safety in Epilepsy Surgery
To conduct a retrospective multicenter cohort study to define surgical benchmark values for best achievable outcomes following surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Trial name
- NCT04952298
- Testing
- Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
SEEG Guided RF-TC v.s. ATL for mTLE With HS
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) is the most classical subtype of temporal lobe epilepsy, which is the indication of surgical intervention after evaluation.
- Trial name
- STARTS (NCT03941613)
- Testing
- SEEG guided RF-TC, Anterior temporal lobectomy
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE)
MRI Volumetry and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
This works aims at evaluating the diagnostic performance of combined MRI Volumetry, Diffusion tensor imaging and Conventional MRI in lateralizing the epileptogenic focus in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and correlate these…
- Trial name
- NCT07384351
- Testing
- MRI
- Volunteers
- 78 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Epilepsy
Evaluation and Treatment of Patients With Epilepsy
This protocol has three purposes: 1) to screen patients with seizures for participation in research studies of NINDS s Clinical Epilepsy Section (CES), 2) to follow the natural course of seizure disorders, and 3) to train CES…
- Trial name
- NCT00013845
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,278 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Epilepsy, Drug Resistant
Piriform Cortex Electrical Stimulation for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Biliteral Hippocampus Sclerosis
The primary objective of this research is to study the efficacy and safety of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of Piriform cortex as adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency of seizures in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy…
- Trial name
- NCT07128563
- Testing
- piriform cortex-DBS
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing
Epilepsy, Drug Resistant
Subiculum Electrical Stimulation for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Biliteral Hippocampus Sclerosis(SESTB)
The primary objective of this research is to study the efficacy and safety of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of Subiculum as adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency of seizures in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy with…
- Trial name
- NCT06436547
- Testing
- Subiculum-DBS ON
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, MRI Scans
Structural Cartography of the Insula in Temporal Epilepsy Patients
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…
- Trial name
- CON-INSULA (NCT04871555)
- Testing
- MRI
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 115 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Central Hospital, Nancy, France
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
We aim to o evaluate the role of conventional and advanced MRI sequences in diagnosis of idiopathic temporal lobe epilepsy including identification and lateralization of epileptogenic focus.
- Trial name
- NCT03643471
- Testing
- MRI
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Epilepsy
Study of Specimens Obtained During Epilepsy Surgery
This study will collect brain tissue samples for research purposes from patients undergoing surgery to treat epilepsy. The standard surgical procedure for medically intractable epilepsy i.e., epilepsy that cannot be controlled…
- Trial name
- NCT00025714
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 131 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Hippocampal and Thalamic DBS for Bilateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
The study aims to compare the safety and effectiveness of deep brain stimulation of the hippocampus and the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for reducing the frequency of seizures in patients with bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Trial name
- NCT04164056
- Testing
- deep brain stimulation
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Language Localization Using Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Patients With Epilepsy
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may be able to provide a moderately detailed localization of language functions in the brain.
- Trial name
- NCT00001672
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Rolandic Epilepsy, Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
The Rolandic Epilepsy/ESES/Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Correlation With Language Impairment Study
In clinical practice language impairment is frequently reported in association with nocturnal epileptiform activity. There is a spectrum of epileptic conditions that are characterized by nocturnal epileptiform activity.
- Conditions
- Rolandic Epilepsy, Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Electrical Status Epilepticus During Slow Wave Sleep
- Trial name
- REL (NCT01335425)
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 47 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Epilepsy, Hippocampal Sclerosis
Gene Expression Changes of Brain Tissue in Human Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Hippocampal Sclerosis
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.
- Trial name
- NCT04917939
- Testing
- RNA sequencing
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine
Epilepsy, Anomia
Intensive Preoperative Speech Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy
Out of 30,000 new cases per year in France, 30% of epileptic patients are drug-resistant. Neurosurgery, which consists in resecting the epileptogenic zone, is the only chance of cure.
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Anomia, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Trial name
- REPREO (NCT05609084)
- Testing
- Speech therapy, Speech therapy assessment
- Where
- 12 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 214 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Hippocampal Sclerosis, Epilepsy
High Selective Subiculum SEEG Guided RF-TC for mTLE-HS
The primary objective of this research is to study the efficacy and safety of Stereotactic EEG (SEEG) guided radio-frequency thermocoagulation (RF-TC) of Subiculum as adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency of seizures in…
- Trial name
- NCT06558864
- Testing
- Subiculum RF-TC
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing