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Self-administered ONe-of-a Kind Approach to Epilepsy Therapy Through a Web-based Music Application

Description

This is a prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blinded randomized study of self-administered auditory intervention in a naturalistic home environment.

Conditions

EpilepsyRefractory EpilepsyMusic
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Study Details

Study overview

This is a prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blinded randomized study of self-administered auditory intervention in a naturalistic home environment.

SONATA: Self-administered ONe-of-a Kind Approach to Epilepsy Therapy Through a Web-based Music Application

Self-administered ONe-of-a Kind Approach to Epilepsy Therapy Through a Web-based Music Application

Condition
Epilepsy
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Worcester

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655

Lebanon

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Adults with medication-refractory focal epilepsy who have undergone RNS implantation at least six months prior and are in the judgement of the treating physician on a stable RNS regimen in terms of stimulation
  • * Willing to attend all study visits and complete all required study procedures
  • * Access to private or public wireless data service at regular intervals
  • * Access to personal mobile device
  • * Documentation of a musicogenic, or auditory-triggered focal seizure semiology
  • * Participant is unable to reasonably participate in study tasks as determined by the investigator
  • * Inability to obtain informed consent from the patient or legally authorized representative

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,

Brian C Fidali, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Study Record Dates

2026-03-01