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Emotion control in patients with comorbidity of epilepsy and depression

This project investigates the hypothesis that depression in epilepsy is based on dysfunction in the network for emotion control. During emotion control tasks, (invasive) electro-encephalography will be used to measure task-related neural activity in depressed vs. non-depressed patients with epilepsy. This project further analyzes the effects of vagus nerve stimulation, a treatment that is effective for both epilepsy and depression.

Date:1 Oct 2011 →  30 Sep 2015
Keywords:epilepsy, emotion control, depression
Disciplines:Neurophysiology, Neurological and neuromuscular diseases