Intensive Preoperative Speech Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Epilepsy
Anomia
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 16 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Prevention
- Participants needed
- 214 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · Other
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About This Trial
Out of 30,000 new cases per year in France, 30% of epileptic patients are drug-resistant. Neurosurgery, which consists in resecting the epileptogenic zone, is the only chance of cure. In the case of temporal epilepsy of the language-dominant hemisphere (TLE), this procedure presents a high risk of increasing cognitive difficulties and may even be contraindicated for this reason alone. The difficul…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patient 16 years of age and older,
2. Patient whose epileptogenic area involves the temporal structures of the hemisphere specialized for language,
3. Patient whose hemispheric specialization for language is known
4. Patient willing to undergo resective surgery such as anteri…
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