Clinical trial NCT06967935: Sleep and Rehearsal-Driven Memory in Epilepsy
Official title: Rehearsal-Induced Memory Consolidation and Its Modulation by Sleep in People With Epilepsy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Epilepsy
Memory Consolidation
Keywords: Epilepsy
Memory consolidation
Sleep
Reharsal
Reactivation
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-05-13
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with epilepsy admitted to the Functional Neurology and Epileptology Department of the Hospices Civils de Lyon (University Hospital) for video-EEG monitoring will be invited by the investigating physician to participate in the study. If patients wish to take part, they will be asked to perform a cognitive task.

Brief summary: Memory consolidation transforms unstable memory traces into lasting representations, a process enhanced by both sleep and rehearsal during learning. Rehearsal is thought to accelerate consolidation by inducing memory reactivations that resemble those occurring during sleep. However, the respective mechanisms of sleep- and rehearsal-induced consolidation-and their potential interactions-remain poorly understood, especially in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, where rehearsal might help compensate for memory deficits linked to hippocampal dysfunction, and where sleep may exacerbate epileptic activity. The CORESOM-EPI study aims to compare the effects of rehearsal and sleep on memory consolidation in patients undergoing video-EEG monitoring. Participants will learn "object-place" associations under two conditions (single versus repeated encoding), with memory tested immediately and again after a 12-hour delay. This delay will either include a full day awake or a night of sleep, allowing direct comparison of sleep- and rehearsal-related consolidation effects. Each participant will perform the task twice, with "wake" and "sleep" condition, in a balanced order. As a preliminary phase of the CRIMES study (ANR-DFG 2024), CORESOM-EPI will help assess how sleep and rehearsal influence memory consolidation in epilepsy. It will also serve to adapt the behavioral task for clinical use, paving the way for a future intracranial EEG investigations that will explore the neural networks involved and their modulation by epileptic activity.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient with epilepsy (any type of epilepsy)
* Hospitalized for video-EEG recording lasting at least 4 days
* Aged 18-65 years

Exclusion Criteria:

* Major cognitive impairment other than memory deficit
* Refusal to participate
* Pregnant women, women in labor or nursing mothers
* Persons deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision
* Persons under psychiatric care
* Persons admitted to a health or social institution for purposes other than research
* Adults under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in the percentage of object categories recalled (vs. not recalled) between immediate (30 min after learning) and delayed (12h after learning) recall for rehearsed versus non-rehearsed items.
timeFrame: Day 2
measure: Change in the percentage of object categories recalled (vs. not recalled) between immediate (30 min after learning) and delayed (12h after learning) recall for rehearsed versus non-rehearsed items.
timeFrame: Day 2 + 12 hours
measure: Change in the percentage of object categories recalled (vs. not recalled) between immediate (30 min after learning) and delayed (12h after learning) recall for rehearsed versus non-rehearsed items.
timeFrame: Day 2 + 36 hours
measure: Change in the percentage of object categories recalled (vs. not recalled) between immediate (30 min after learning) and delayed (12h after learning) recall for rehearsed versus non-rehearsed items.
timeFrame: Day 2 + 48 hours
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Locations:
city: Bron
country: France
facility: Service de neurologie fonctionnelle et d'épileptologie, Hôpital neurologique Pierre Wertheimer
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