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Mapping of Human Cognition
Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare organization of normal brain function as detected using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in normal subjects as opposed to patients with epilepsy or brain tumors, to ascribe precise anatomic labels (including Brodmann Areas) and functional significance to each region involved in cognitive processes as detected by cortical stimulation mapping (CSM) in patients with implanted subdural electrodes (SDE) or depth (sEEG) electrodes, to describe the locations of these regions in Talairach space, for a population of patients without overt structural abnormalities in these regions, to generate a spatial probability map of locations of cortical regions "essential" for these processes, to compare the loci of "crucial" language, visual, motor and cognitive sites as determined by CSM with the loci determined by a battery of tasks using fMRI for each individual and to use these data in patients undergoing intracranial electro-corticographyto determine the loci of essential, involved and uninvolved brain areas, and use sophisticated mathematical analyses of these intracranial recordings to study information flow between these areas.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 75 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
75
Start Date
2022-08-01
Completion Date
2027-07-31
Last Updated
2025-08-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Language-based tasks
In either the MRI suite, or the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, or the operating room, epilepsy and tumor subjects are asked to perform a variety of language-based tasks as neural recordings are made from and/or neural stimulations are delivered to various language areas of the brain.
Locations (1)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States