Brain Recordings During Thinking Tasks in Children and Young People With Intractable Epilepsy
Studies how the brain learns, remembers and decides in young people with intractable epilepsy.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Pediatric Epilepsy
Key facts
- Where
- Dallas, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 3 and 25 years old?
Source: NCT07350551, who can take part
Where in United States
- Children's Medical Center DallasDallas, United StatesTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Trial code
- NCT07350551
- Record updated
- 6 October 2026
- Original description
The purpose of the research is to better understand how the human brain accomplishes the basic cognitive tasks of learning new information, recalling stored information, making decisions or choices about presented information and self-control. These investigations are critical to better understand human cognition and to design treatments for disorders of learning, memory, decision making and cognitive control.Read full original descriptionShow less
Pediatric Epilepsy
The purpose of the research is to better understand how the human brain accomplishes the basic cognitive tasks of learning new information, recalling stored information, making decisions or choices about presented information and self-control. These investigations are critical to better understand human cognition and to design treatments for disorders of learning, memory, decision making and cognitive control.
Inclusion: Candidates will be those who are admitted to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and are able to participate in a pre-operative evaluation using depth intracranial electrodes. The candidacy is determined independently by the patient's treating physician as part of the patient's routine medical care; Patients have drug-intractable epilepsy undergoing invasive monitoring in the EMU.
Exclusion: Determination by clinicians and investigators that a patient is unable to complete the behavioral tasks required for the protocol due to either cognitive limits, psychological limits, or pain.