The BrainDrugs-Epilepsy Study: A Prospective Open-label Cohort Precision Medicine Study in Epilepsy
Primary objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify single and composite biomarkers (from neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and non-imaging biological measures), clinical measures (from cognitive, psychometric, and behavioral test scores), and risk/protective factors (e.g., from medical history, socioeconomic status, coping, lifestyle) that can: 1. Predict antiseizure medication (ASM) treatment outcome, psychiatric, cognitive, or behavioral comorbidities, and quality of life in newly diagnosed epilepsy patients (Cohort II-III). 2. Predict a second epileptic seizure/epilepsy diagnosis and behavioral, cognitive, psychiatric dysfunction and quality of life in patients after a first epileptic seizure (Cohort I).
• No history of current or past psychiatric or other major medical conditions
• Cohort I-II: Age between 16 and 55 years
• Cohort I: Semiology of first seizure raises a strong suspicion of epilepsy but do not fulfill International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) diagnostic criteria
• Cohort II-III: Diagnosed with epilepsy according to ILAE criteria
• Cohort III: Epileptogenic lesion on MRI concordant with seizure semiology and/or EEG