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Sleep Related Memory Consolidation in Children With Age Related Focal Epilepsy.

Sleep Related Memory Consolidation in Children With Age Related Focal Epilepsy.

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03865771
Acronym
EPIMEM
Enrollment
95
Registered
2019-03-07
Start date
2019-03-27
Completion date
2027-09-30
Last updated
2025-12-05

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Conditions

Atypical Benign Partial Epilepsy (ABPE), Benign Epilepsy With Centro Temporal Spikes (BECTS), Epileptic Encephalopathy With Continuous Spike and Waves During Sleep (ECSWS)

Keywords

Memory consolidation, Epilepsy, Childhood, Benign epilepsy with centro temporal spikes (BECTS), Epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike and waves during sleep (ECSWS)

Brief summary

Age related focal epilepsies in children encompasses, according to the ILAE criteria, benign epilepsy with centro temporal spikes (BECTS), atypical benign partial epilepsy (ABPE) and epileptic encephalopathy with continuous spike and waves during sleep (ECSWS). These non structural epilepsies are associated with interictal sleep spike and waves activated by sleep. Moreover, high prevalence of learning disorders occur in children with age related epilepsies. A correlation is suspected between learning disorders and sleep activation of spike and waves. The investigators suppose that learning dysfunction is linked to loss of information during sleep of epileptic children, unlike for control patients. As sleep allows memory consolidation of words learned during wakefulness, an epileptic activity during sleep may disrupt this consolidation, leading to a loss of information. Hypothesis: the investigators hypothesize a disruption of memory consolidation after one night in children affected with ABPE and ECSWS (severe group) compared to memory consolidation in children affected with BECTS (benign group), and control group. Primary purpose: To demonstrate that the deficit of delayed recall in 15 word learning test after one night is higher for the severe group, compared to the benign group and the control group. Secondary purposes: * to study the evolution over time of memory consolidation * to evaluate the correlation of the deficit of delayed recall with executive dysfunction, clinical factors of epilepsy, neurophysiological factors of epilepsy, and sleep architecture

Interventions

BEHAVIORALNeuropsychological testing

memory, executive testing, behaviour questionnaire, visual attention,

BEHAVIORALNeuropsychological procedure

Rey auditory verbal learning test, Delayed recall : 1h, 5h, 24h (after one night sleep)

OTHERVideo EEG and polysomnography

Video EEG : 10 electrodes + 3 electrodes for PSG 2h wake EEG Whole night EEG

Sponsors

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

Principal: * normal psychomotor development * informed consent signed by both parents and subject if able * affiliated to social security regimen Specific Patients from severe and benign groups: * focal age related epilepsy: BECTS, ABPE, ECSWS (ILAE criteria) * children hospitalized for their follow-up * normal neuroimaging Control group -children hospitalized for a non neurologic disease

Exclusion criteria

Principal: Psychiatric trouble (DSM V) Sensorial trouble without correction Poor command of French language Minor under care Specific Patients from severe and benign groups: * degenerative disease * abnormal neuroimaging * mental deficiency Control group * neurologic trouble * abnormal sleep EEG * intellectual deficiency

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
memory lapse rate at 24 hours in the severe group, the benign group and the control group. (memory lapse rate: rate of non recalled words number, during the delayed recall phase of the test, related to the maximal number of words recalled24 hours

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
memory lapse rate for each groupat 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours
Correlation of memory lapse rate with Executive functioning tests scoresat 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours
Correlation of memory lapse rate with age of onset, epilepsy phase, treatmentat 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours
Correlation of memory lapse rate with EEG severity scale, atypical criteria, EEG focus localization, sleep discharges frequencyat 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours
Correlation of memory lapse rate with number and organization of sleep cyclesat 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactAnne DE SAINT MARTIN, MD
anne.desaintmartin@chru-strasbourg.fr+ 33 3.88.12.83.98
Backup ContactLucille SCHNEIDER
lucille.schneider@chru-strasbourg.fr

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026