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NCT04286776Active, not recruiting

Memory Retrieval and Encoding Investigated by Neural Stimulation

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Nov 2024

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this research is to understand biomarkers of human memory through correlational analyses and to use focal electrical stimulation as a causal manipulation to understand how biomarkers of memory relate to other brain states and behavioral measures.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
800 (estimated)
First submitted
24 Feb 2020
Start date
Oct 2014
Primary completion date
Dec 2024
Lead sponsor
University of Pennsylvania
Diseases
Epilepsy
NCT number
NCT04286776

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 800
  • From Oct 2014 to the primary completion date, Dec 2024
  • 11 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • MRI contraindications
    • Standard clinical care includes a pregnancy test for female patients prior to the surgical implantation of the electrodes. Pregnant women are not surgically implanted.

Other illness

  • Any physical or cognitive disability or illness that would limit their ability to perform cognitive tasks
  • Any medical condition that would, in the investigator's opinion, limit the subject's participation in the study.

Other

  • Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent

Who the study is looking for

  • Expected to undergo intracranial implantation and postoperative electroencephalographic monitoring as part of a standard clinical procedure for the treatment of pharmacologically resistant epilepsy
  • Age 18 or older

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (11)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Emory University Hospital
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Colorado Denver
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AuroraUnited StatesUnknown status
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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BethesdaUnited StatesUnknown status
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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DallasUnited StatesUnknown status
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
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LebanonUnited StatesUnknown status
Columbia University
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Mayo Clinic
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RochesterUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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San AntonioUnited StatesUnknown status

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