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Featured Epilepsy Studies

The following are epilepsy studies that apply to particular groups within the Seizure Tracker™ population. Click a title to expand its details.
STARS
The STARS study is searching for people who experience prolonged epileptic seizures (i.e. lasting more than 3 minutes) to join this clinical research study. The STARS Study is testing an inhaler containing an investigational drug that has been designed to potentially stop a prolonged seizure once it has begun.

If you or the person you care for are experiencing prolonged seizures, consider participating in the STARS study.

For more study information, please contact an experienced Patient Navigator at +1 470-523-2502.
Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
The TSC Biosample Repository stores samples of blood, DNA, and tissues from individuals affected by TSC that scientists can use in their research. The samples we collect are linked to clinical data in the TSC Natural History Database. These samples and linked clinical data help researchers conduct experiments to find biomarkers of TSC, test potential drug treatments, and determine why TSC is so different from person to person.

Implemented in 2006, the TSC Natural History Database captures clinical data to document the impact of the disease on a person’s health over his or her lifetime. More than 2,000 people with TSC are enrolled in the project across 18 U.S.-based clinical sites and the TSC Alliance. The TSC Alliance provides funding to participating clinics to perform data entry, monitors the integrity of the database, and makes data available to investigators to answer specific research questions and identify potential participants for clinical trials and studies.
Description: Study design is a Phase IIb prospective multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial. The goal will be to enroll 80 infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex who are less than 6 months of age prior to the onset of their first seizure.
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Search Results (284)

All studies below are either currently recruiting or will be soon.
Double-blind, Randomized Trial of PRAX-628 in Adults With Focal Seizures to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety (POWER1)
Brief Summary: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Multicenter, Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of PRAX-628 in Adults With Focal Seizures (POWER1)
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Acute Sympotomatic Seizure Secondary to Autoimmune Encephalitis and Autoimmune-associated Epilepsy
Brief Summary: Previously, scholars called the seizures secondary to autoimmune encephalitis（AE） "autoimmune related epilepsy", but the seizures secondary to AE are usually controlled after the improvement of encephalitis, which does not meet the "persistent" characteristics of epilepsy. Only a subset of patients with seizures lasting several years require long-term Antiseizure medications (ASM). In 2020, the International Coalition against Epilepsy classified it as "acute symptomatic seizure secondary to AE". ASSAE) and autoimmune-associated epilepsy (AAE) . The former is caused by AE, which has clinical manifestations of AE at the same time as epileptic seizures at the beginning or recurrence. The proportion and type of epileptic seizures are different due to different causes, and epileptic seizures are also controlled after the disease is controlled. The latter is that after adequate immunotherapy, there are still persistent seizures, and there is no obvious evidence of inflammatory activity, this type of patient application ASM and immunotherapy is not effective. Secondly, with the deepening of AE research, gradually found that some AAE can still be ASMs cure, such as carbamazepine, ocasepine, lakaosamine. On the one hand, it works by influencing cellular and humoral immune responses. On the other hand, effectiveness of sodium channel blockers in focal epilepsy. Lacosamide is a slow sodium channel blocker that belongs to the third generation of ASM. It has a short half-life and can be quickly increased to an effective dose with a low incidence of adverse reactions. Therefore, the investigators chose to add oral antiepileptic therapy with lacosamide in AAE populations to observe efficacy and safety.
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Improving Outcomes for Patients With Life-Threatening Neurologic Illness
Brief Summary: Background: While the intensive care of patients with life-threatening brain illnesses has advanced tremendously, a large number of therapies are still without proper scientific support. This can be partly explained by the fact that mechanisms of initial brain injury are still not well understood. Why additional neurological injury occurs during a patient's stay in the NeuroCritical Care Unit (NCCU) despite current best, evidence-based clinical practices, is also not well understood. However, over the past decade, better tools have become available to measure and monitor the impact of our clinical care on the rapidly changing physiology and chemistry of the injured brain. Some of these tools are CT, MRI, ultrasound, and catheter-based technology measuring blood flow and metabolism. These tools have enabled earlier detection of injury and complications and newer therapeutic strategies. Purpose: Examine disease pathways common to all brain injuries seen in the University of Maryland's 22-bed NCCU. Life-threatening neurological illnesses cared for in the NCCU include massive stroke, bleeding in and around the brain (subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhage), brain tumors, difficult to control seizures, neurologic infections, nerve and muscle diseases (such as myasthenia gravis or Guillain-Barre Syndrome), and spinal cord disorders among others. Many NCCU patients are comatose or paralyzed and may suffer injuries in other parts of the body as well. This effort will require the creation of a robust clinical database for the capture of data including patient characteristics (age, sex), clinical characteristics, medical treatments, surgical interventions, physiological data (such as vital signs, cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure, cerebral oximetry, etc), laboratory data, and standard-of-care diagnostic studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), ultrasound, CT, MRI, and angiograms. Similar databases exist at other major centers for neurocritical care and have been instrumental to the identification of characteristics both predictive of and associated with outcomes of patients long after their stay in the NCCU. In addition, the samples collected will be included in the University of Maryland Medicine (UMM) Biorepository which is a shared resource to enable biomedical research by University of Maryland faculty.
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Lacosamide Intravenous Injection for Emergency Termination of Status Epilepticus
Brief Summary: Status epilepticus (SE) is an acute and critical form of neurological and systemic diseases involving multiple clinical disciplines, with an annual incidence of (20-73) per 100,000 people and a clinical case fatality rate of 20%. Although there are many causes of SE, the primary goal of treatment is to terminate the seizures quickly, and timely and standardized treatment can reduce mortality and improve prognosis. The prognosis is closely related to the duration of the episode, and the longer the episode, the worse the prognosis. If seizures of convulsive status epilepticus persist for more than 10 minutes and are not provided with optimal therapeutic intervention, serious adverse outcomes and even death are likely to occur. How to effectively terminate status epilepticus and actively find effective, reliable and safe treatment options is a key research problem at present. Due to critical illness, limited treatment options, and poor prognosis, new treatments are urgently needed to terminate persistent epileptic activity. Lacosamide (LCM) is a third-generation new antiepileptic drug, which was approved in 2008 for the additive treatment of patients aged 16 years and older with focal seizures, with or without generalized seizures. In 2017, it was extended to patients over 4 years of age. Lacosamide is an anticonvulsant drug with a new dual mechanism of action: first, lacosamide antagonizes the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor; Second, lacosamide selectively acts on the slow inactivation of sodium channels and prolongs the inactivation time of sodium channels, which can more effectively reduce sodium influx and reduce the excitability of neurons, so as to achieve the purpose of treating epilepsy. Lacosamide exhibits linear pharmacokinetics, high oral bioavailability, protein binding of \< 15%, rapid and almost complete absorption in a single oral dose, and maximum plasma concentrations within 1 to 4 hours. A number of randomized controlled clinical studies and real-world studies abroad have shown that lacosamide can significantly improve the effective rate and seizure-free rate of epilepsy control, and it is well tolerated and has fewer adverse reactions. The 2022 Chinese Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Post-stroke Epilepsy recommended lacosamide injection as a first-line drug for non-convulsive status epilepticus after stroke, and the Chinese Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Children (2022) recommended that lacosamide be considered as an additive treatment for refractory convulsive status epilepticus in children \> 60 minutes . There is a lack of clinical research data on the efficacy and safety of intravenous bolus lacosamide for status epilepticus, including convulsive status epilepticus and non-convulsive epilepticus.
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Pharmacological Management of Seizures Post Traumatic Brain Injury
Brief Summary: The overall aim of the MAST trial is to define best practice in the use of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) for patients following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The trial will consist of two parts. The first part aims to answer whether a shorter or a longer course of AEDs is better to prevent further seizures in patients who have started having seizures following TBI (MAST - duration). The second part aims to answer whether a 7-day course of either Phenytoin or Levetiracetam should be used for patients with a serious TBI to prevent seizures from starting (MAST- prophylaxis).
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BHV-7000 Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS) Study
Brief Summary: This is an open label study to assess the biological effect of BHV-7000 on abnormal activity recorded by the RNS System in patients with focal epilepsy implanted with the RNS System. BHV-7000 is a potassium channel activator being evaluated for use in epilepsy. Participants are offered the drug for 4 weeks. Activity during that treatment period is compared to a 90-day retrospective baseline period in which other medications and device settings were stable, and also to a 4-week withdrawal period after treatment is discontinued. The study is open to patients with RNS regardless of whether they report clinical seizures, as long as the device recordings continue to show epileptiform activity.
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Status Epilepticus Population Study (STEPS)
Brief Summary: The aim of this observational multicenter cohort study is to gain a deeper understanding regarding the effects of treatment adaption based on information from outcome prediction models, risk stratification, as well as treatment monitoring, detection, prevention, and management of complications on course and outcome of adult patients with status epilepticus (SE).
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Embrace: Seizure Characterization
Brief Summary: The study is intended to characterize sleep, stress, and seizures in daily life with the Empatica Embrace watch and smartphone-based diary-alert system. The primary study objective is to collect and validate biometric signals from epilepsy patients using the Empatica Embrace watch and compare them to ictal events captured from human (patient and caregiver) reports.
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