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Brief Title: The Neural Code and Dynamics of the Reading Network.
Official Title: Comparative Analysis of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Brain Regions Measured by Functional Imaging AND Electrophysiology and Hemispheric Laterality Predicted by Structural Connectivity and Fronto-basal-ganglia Circuits for Selective Stopping and Braking and Diffusion Imaging for Seizure Focus Localization AND Representation and Binding of Spatial and Temporal Episodic Memories in Human Hippocampus AND Sparsity and Spectral-Temporal Decomposition in Real-Time Network Modulation for Intractable Epilepsy AND Neural Basis of Human Spatial Navigation AND Mapping Brain Regions of Mood
Study ID: NCT05989893
Brief 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.
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Name: Nitin Tandon, MD
Affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR