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Electrophysiologic Studies of Cognition in Epilepsy Patients
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Stereoelectroencephalography for Drug-resistant Epilepsy. Completed, enrolled 20 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Interoception, or sensation from inside the body, is involved in a variety of clinical symptoms, such as tics, compulsions and negative mood. This study uses invasive recordings of brain activity and brain stimulation to better understand basic neural mechanisms of interoception and related behaviors. Outcomes of this study provide critical tools for future investigation into clinical symptoms that emerge from abnormal interoception.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Computer-based tasks designed to evoke changes in interoceptive attention, arousal and anticipation will be completed. The first asks patients to attend to their heartbeat to manipulate interoceptive attention. The second asks patients to judge affective pictures to manipulate states of arousals. The third engages patients in a probabilistic reward-learning task, or gambling task, and anticipate the outcomes of risky decision-making. A final task guides patients to slow their breathing to 6 breaths per minute.