Connectivity Analysis for Investigation of Auditory Impairment in Epilepsy
NCT ID: NCT01212068
Last Updated: 2017-10-06
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Basic Information
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TERMINATED
24 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2010-09-10
2017-04-04
Brief Summary
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* 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.
Detailed Description
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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.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
For those participants with epilepsy - seizure onset age \> 10 years
Normal cognitive function (Full-Scale IQ \>84)
Absence of any co-morbid neurological disorder
Absence of highly magnetizable metallic implants, including highly magnetizable dental work
A negative urine pregnancy test
For participants with epilepsy scheduled or to-be-scheduled for grid implantation surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Exclusion Criteria
Presence of a lesion on a previous MRI, except for the following: mesotemporal sclerosis, cortical dysplasia, and dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor.
Presence of highly magnetizable metallic implants, such as pacemakers, aneurysm clips, cochlear implants and shrapnel fragments, including highly magnetizable dental work, or any significant history of exposure to small metallic objects which may have become lodged in the head or neck.
For controls (healthy volunteers) only: history of speech-language disorder
18 Years
50 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
NIH
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Barry Horwitz, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Locations
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Countries
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References
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Axmacher N, Schmitz DP, Wagner T, Elger CE, Fell J. Interactions between medial temporal lobe, prefrontal cortex, and inferior temporal regions during visual working memory: a combined intracranial EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J Neurosci. 2008 Jul 16;28(29):7304-12. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1778-08.2008.
Babiloni C, Bares M, Vecchio F, Brazdil M, Jurak P, Moretti DV, Ubaldi A, Rossini PM, Rektor I. Synchronization of gamma oscillations increases functional connectivity of human hippocampus and inferior-middle temporal cortex during repetitive visuomotor events. Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Jun;19(11):3088-98. doi: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03431.x.
Bishop DV, McArthur GM. Individual differences in auditory processing in specific language impairment: a follow-up study using event-related potentials and behavioural thresholds. Cortex. 2005 Jun;41(3):327-41. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70270-3.
Other Identifiers
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10-DC-0211
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: secondary_id
100211
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id