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To see whether epilepsy surgery is better than standard medical therapy in terms of seizure freedom, rate of Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), and quality of life in patients of coexisting Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Phase 3
Conditions
Health Condition 1: G408- Other epilepsy and recurrent seizures
Registration Number
CTRI/2022/02/040381
Lead Sponsor
AIIMS New Delhi
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

1.Age between 18-65 years and both gender will be included.

2.Will be able to give written informed consent for the participation and follow-up of the study.

3.Patients with DRE and PNES will be diagnosed by the experienced neurologist, epilepsy specialist and long term VEEG monitoring

4.DRE with PNES patients will have dual diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures and epileptiform discharges.

5.Will be cleared from the multidisciplinary epilepsy surgery case conference meeting.

6.Will be able to complete seizure diaries and complete regularly and questionnaires/scales.

7.Willing to undergo CBT and meditation based yoga intervention, counselling for 10 weeks (weekly).

8.Not enrolled for the CBT and meditation based yoga intervention since in last six months.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Patients have other psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, mood disorder, anxiety disorders, and psychosis.

2.Patients who scored severe and very severe depression score on Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E)/ Hamiltonâ??s depression rating scale (HDRS).

3. Patients with metabolic abnormality, cardiac abnormality, renal failure and respiratory disease.

4.Not consenting patient for the participation and follow-up.

5.Patients will not having the alcohol dependence, smoking etc.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Primary outcome: <br/ ><br>This study would reveal the impact of CBT, counseling, and meditation-based yoga, in terms of seizure outcome and changes in seizure frequency over a period of 12 months in coexisting dual diagnosed (DRE with PNES) patients in both groups i.e. epilepsy surgery and usual Anti-seizures medications (ASMs) group. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Baseline (T0), after 10 weeks of Phase-I intervention(T1), Post-intervention of phase-II at 6 months (T2) and 12 months (T3)
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Changes in seizure severity, anxiety, depression, emotional behavior, quality of life, and cessation of PNES,Changes in functional connectivity, changes in epigenetics and metabolomics profile in these patients of Drug-resistant epilepsy with psychogenic non-epileptic seizureTimepoint: Baseline (T0), Before randomization (T1)-Phase-I intervention, Post intervention of phase-II at 6 months (T2) and 12 months (T3)
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