Contribution of High Resolution EEG Functional Connectivity Measures to Presurgical Evaluation of Patients With Intractable Epilepsy

NCT ID: NCT01738516

Last Updated: 2023-05-24

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

44 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-02-28

Study Completion Date

2016-08-31

Brief Summary

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Electroencephalography (EEG) with very high spatial resolution (HR-EEG, 256 electrodes) allow for better analysis of local and global activity of the cerebral cortex, as compared with conventional EEG. Since January 2012, the Neurology Department of CHU Rennes is the first clinical service in France equipped with such a system.

Applied to HR-EEG recordings, brain connectivity methods are likely to provide essential information (in the form of "connectivity graphs") on cortical networks, either dysfunctional or not, involved in the generation of interictal paroxysms (like spikes or spike-waves) and during seizures.

So far, many methods have been proposed (see for a review: Wendling et al., 2009; Wendling et al., 2010). However, since each method is highly sensitive to the type of model that is assumed for the underlying relationship between distinct brain regions (Ansari-Asl et al., 2006), none of them has yet demonstrated its effectiveness.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Epilepsy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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epileptic patients

Electroencephalography

Group Type OTHER

Electroencephalography

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Epileptic patients, as in healthy volunteers will be offered a review of EEG recording equipment resting on EEG-HR 256-channel EGI © in operation since January 2012 in the Van Gogh Service Unit of Neurology Rennes University Hospital (hospital Pontchaillou). The EEG is a routine now included in the Phase I report some epileptic patients during presurgical investigation. Patients to be included in this research protocol pass all review on the new device EEG-HR 256 channels. In addition to the rest condition, shared by both groups of participants, the healthy control subjects participate in two additional experimental tasks to be performed during recording. A picture naming task and a task of spelling words represented by these images.

Healthy Volunteers

Electroencephalography and additional experimental tasks

Group Type OTHER

Electroencephalography and additional experimental tasks

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Epileptic patients, as in healthy volunteers will be offered a review of EEG recording equipment resting on EEG-HR 256-channel EGI © in operation since January 2012 in the Van Gogh Service Unit of Neurology Rennes University Hospital (hospital Pontchaillou). The EEG is a routine now included in the Phase I report some epileptic patients during presurgical investigation. Patients to be included in this research protocol pass all review on the new device EEG-HR 256 channels. In addition to the rest condition, shared by both groups of participants, the healthy control subjects participate in two additional experimental tasks to be performed during recording. A picture naming task and a task of spelling words represented by these images.

Interventions

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Electroencephalography

Epileptic patients, as in healthy volunteers will be offered a review of EEG recording equipment resting on EEG-HR 256-channel EGI © in operation since January 2012 in the Van Gogh Service Unit of Neurology Rennes University Hospital (hospital Pontchaillou). The EEG is a routine now included in the Phase I report some epileptic patients during presurgical investigation. Patients to be included in this research protocol pass all review on the new device EEG-HR 256 channels. In addition to the rest condition, shared by both groups of participants, the healthy control subjects participate in two additional experimental tasks to be performed during recording. A picture naming task and a task of spelling words represented by these images.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Electroencephalography and additional experimental tasks

Epileptic patients, as in healthy volunteers will be offered a review of EEG recording equipment resting on EEG-HR 256-channel EGI © in operation since January 2012 in the Van Gogh Service Unit of Neurology Rennes University Hospital (hospital Pontchaillou). The EEG is a routine now included in the Phase I report some epileptic patients during presurgical investigation. Patients to be included in this research protocol pass all review on the new device EEG-HR 256 channels. In addition to the rest condition, shared by both groups of participants, the healthy control subjects participate in two additional experimental tasks to be performed during recording. A picture naming task and a task of spelling words represented by these images.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Being more than 18 years old,
* Having a chronic partial epilepsy resistant to medical treatments well administered and well followed in the course of pre-surgical assessment.


* Being French native speaker,
* Being more than 18 years old,
* Being right-handed.

Exclusion Criteria

* All patients for whom a preoperative surgical exam is not suitable,
* Any patient with psychiatric disease or intellectual disorder such that informed consent could not be obtained,
* Any patient with no abnormal EEG during intercritical phases,
* All patients presenting psychiatric, neuropsychological or developmental difficulties in addition to epilepsy,
* Adult persons subject to legal protection (judicial protection, temporary guardianship/guardianship, administrative supervision), persons deprived of their liberty and pregnant or lactating women.


* The presence of any psychiatric, neuropsychological, and developmental disorder,
* Any uncorrected visual impairment,
* Any trouble or delay in learning to read / speak or write French,
* Being fully bilingual or multilingual
* Medication, treatment and / or substances that may alter or modify brain functions,
* Adult persons subject to legal protection (judicial protection, temporary guardianship/guardianship, administrative supervision), persons deprived of their liberty and pregnant or lactating women.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Rennes University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Arnaud Biraben

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Rennes University Hospital

Locations

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Rennes University Hospital

Rennes, Brittany Region, France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Mheich A, Hassan M, Khalil M, Gripon V, Dufor O, Wendling F. SimiNet: A Novel Method for Quantifying Brain Network Similarity. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell. 2018 Sep;40(9):2238-2249. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2750160. Epub 2017 Sep 8.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 28910755 (View on PubMed)

Kabbara A, El Falou W, Khalil M, Wendling F, Hassan M. The dynamic functional core network of the human brain at rest. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 7;7(1):2936. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03420-6.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 28592794 (View on PubMed)

Mheich A, Hassan M, Khalil M, Berrou C, Wendling F. A new algorithm for spatiotemporal analysis of brain functional connectivity. J Neurosci Methods. 2015 Mar 15;242:77-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.01.002. Epub 2015 Jan 10.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 25583381 (View on PubMed)

Hassan M, Merlet I, Mheich A, Kabbara A, Biraben A, Nica A, Wendling F. Identification of Interictal Epileptic Networks from Dense-EEG. Brain Topogr. 2017 Jan;30(1):60-76. doi: 10.1007/s10548-016-0517-z. Epub 2016 Aug 22.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 27549639 (View on PubMed)

Rizkallah J, Benquet P, Kabbara A, Dufor O, Wendling F, Hassan M. Dynamic reshaping of functional brain networks during visual object recognition. J Neural Eng. 2018 Oct;15(5):056022. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/aad7b1. Epub 2018 Aug 2.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 30070974 (View on PubMed)

Hassan M, Shamas M, Khalil M, El Falou W, Wendling F. EEGNET: An Open Source Tool for Analyzing and Visualizing M/EEG Connectome. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 17;10(9):e0138297. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138297. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 26379232 (View on PubMed)

Hassan M, Dufor O, Merlet I, Berrou C, Wendling F. EEG source connectivity analysis: from dense array recordings to brain networks. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 12;9(8):e105041. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105041. eCollection 2014.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 25115932 (View on PubMed)

Hassan M, Benquet P, Biraben A, Berrou C, Dufor O, Wendling F. Dynamic reorganization of functional brain networks during picture naming. Cortex. 2015 Dec;73:276-88. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.08.019. Epub 2015 Sep 28.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 26478964 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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LOC/12-07

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2012-A01227-36

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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