Wearable Devices to Monitor Seizures in Autoimmune Epilepsy

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Autoimmune Epilepsy

Treatments: Device: Biosensor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05627661

22-006702

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to search for reproducible changes in a wide range of physical signals, including heart rate, muscle tone and activity and EEG before and at the onset of seizures in patients with epilepsy.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with or suspected of having autoimmune epilepsy.
• Normal controls - cognitively normal subjects without epilepsy

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive or psychiatric condition rendering patient unable to cooperate with data collection or manage and recharge smart watch and tablet computer devices. Presence of open or healing wounds near monitoring sites (infection risk).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 2 patient groups

Autoimmune Epilepsy with Biosensors

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects with suspected autoimmune epilepsy will wear biosensors on wrist or upper arm during the at home monitoring period.

Treatment:

Device: Biosensor

Healthy Controls with Biosensors

Active Comparator group

Description:

Neurologically normal adult healthy controls will wear biosensors on wrist or upper arm during the at home monitoring period.

Treatment:

Device: Biosensor