Electroclinical Correlation of Anxiety

NCT ID: NCT05393518

Last Updated: 2025-07-25

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-11

Study Completion Date

2026-10-11

Brief Summary

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Anxiety disorders have the highest prevalence among mental disorders and cause considerable individual and financial costs. Current treatments do not relieve mental suffering of many patients. Understanding neurobiological mechanisms involved in pathological anxiety is a major scientific challenge.

Detailed Description

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Functional imaging work has made it possible to identify the brain regions involved in anxiety disorders but is insufficient to study the pathophysiological mechanisms that cause anxiety symptoms. Brain regions involved in anxiety disorders are located deep in the human brain, and their electrophysiological study requires invasive recording methods.

Intracerebral electroencephalographic recordings (stereoelectroencephalography - sEEG) made for care in hospital before surgery in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, offer this unique opportunity. Indeed, the brain regions involved in anxiety are among the structures registered to delimit the epilepticogenic zone, and 20% of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy suffer from an anxiety disorder.

This study propose to compare 15 patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy and generalized anxiety disorders (GAD), explored by intracranial sEEG, and 15 patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy without GAD ("controls"),explored by sEEG.

During sEEG patient will be proposed to undergo a custom-made behavioral task design to allow clinically-relevant anxiogenic exposure.

Patients will so be exposed to anxiety scenarios, while intracerebral sEEG, physiological stress parameters and the level of anxiety experienced will be monitored.

Electrophysiological parameters will be compared and correlated with clinical characteristics of the population and outcomes of the task.

Conditions

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Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder Drug Resistant Epilepsy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Drug resistant epilepsy with GAD

Patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy and generalized anxiety disorders (GAD),explored by intracranial EEG (seteroelectroencephalography - SEEG) in Hospital

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Anxiety-induced task

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will be asked to describe their most anxious thoughts and write each of them in a detailed scenario. The scenarios will be based on the answers to the Worry and Anxiety Questionnaire, in order to validate the procedure by a standardized examination. During the task, the scenarios will be successively presented to the subjects, on a digital computer medium in written and oral format. Subjects will be asked to actively focus on these negative thoughts with maximum concern, without seeking to control their emotions.

Neuropsychiatric assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Screening for depression and anxiety

Drug resistant epilepsy without GAD

Patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy without generalized anxiety disorders (GAD),explored by intracranial EEG (seteroelectroencephalography - SEEG) in Hospital

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Anxiety-induced task

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will be asked to describe their most anxious thoughts and write each of them in a detailed scenario. The scenarios will be based on the answers to the Worry and Anxiety Questionnaire, in order to validate the procedure by a standardized examination. During the task, the scenarios will be successively presented to the subjects, on a digital computer medium in written and oral format. Subjects will be asked to actively focus on these negative thoughts with maximum concern, without seeking to control their emotions.

Neuropsychiatric assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Screening for depression and anxiety

Interventions

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Anxiety-induced task

Subjects will be asked to describe their most anxious thoughts and write each of them in a detailed scenario. The scenarios will be based on the answers to the Worry and Anxiety Questionnaire, in order to validate the procedure by a standardized examination. During the task, the scenarios will be successively presented to the subjects, on a digital computer medium in written and oral format. Subjects will be asked to actively focus on these negative thoughts with maximum concern, without seeking to control their emotions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Neuropsychiatric assessment

Screening for depression and anxiety

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Man or woman
* Aged 18 to 65;
* With drug-resistant epilepsy
* Benefiting from a phase II pre-surgical assessment with intracerebral electrophysiological exploration by stereo-EEG
* Meeting the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety disorder ("pathological" population) or not meeting the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety disorder ("control" population)
* WAIS IV full scale IQ \> 75 or IAG \> 81
* Affiliate or beneficiary of a social security scheme
* Giving free, informed consent in writing and signed by the participant and the investigator

Exclusion Criteria

* Being unable to give personal consent
* Be subject to a measure of legal protection (curatorship, guardianship) or placed under judicial protection;
* Suffer from a chronic delusional disorder (eg: schizophrenia);
* Have a moderate or high risk of suicide assessed using the corresponding section of the structured psychiatric interview called "Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview" (M.I.N.I. 7.0) or a score \> 2 on item 10 of the MADRS, assessing suicidal risk;
* Being pregnant or breastfeeding
* Have severe and / or decompensated somatic illness other than drug-resistant epilepsy
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Bordeaux

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jérôme Aupy, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Bordeaux

Locations

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CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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Jérôme Aupy, Dr

Role: CONTACT

05 56 79 56 79

Thomas Bienvenu, Dr

Role: CONTACT

05 56 56 17 98

Facility Contacts

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Jérôme AUPY, Dr

Role: primary

05 56 79 56 79

Thomas BIENVENU

Role: backup

05 56 56 17 98

Other Identifiers

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CHUBX 2020/63

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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