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NCT05152992
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Human Emotion Network
NA trial testing Viewing visual stimuli and electrical stimulation of the brain in Epilepsy in 100 participants. Enrolling by invitation.
30 June 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of California, San Francisco |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | ENROLLING BY INVITATION |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | basic science |
| Enrollment | 100 |
| Start date | 20 April 2015 |
| Primary completion | 30 June 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 30 June 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Viewing visual stimuli and electrical stimulation of the brain
Conditions studied
- Epilepsy — all drugs for Epilepsy →
- Depression — all drugs for Depression →
- Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →
- Emotions — all drugs for Emotions →
Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
Who can join
Adults 18 to 50, any sex, with Epilepsy or Depression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The overall goal of this study is to elucidate how emotion network dynamics relate to the behavioral, autonomic, and experiential changes that accompany emotions and to investigate how emotion network dysfunction relates to affective symptoms. Affective symptoms are a common feature of neuropsychiatric disorders that reflect dysfunction in a distributed brain network that supports emotion. How aberrant functioning in a single emotion network underlies a wide range of affective symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, is not well understood. Anchored by the anterior cingulate cortex and ventral anterior insula, the emotion network responds to numerous affective stimuli. The recording of neural activity directly from the cortical surface from individuals is a promising approach since intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) can provide direct estimates of neuronal populations to map the spatiotemporal dynamics of the emotion network at a millisecond level resolution. This study will exam how activity within emotion network hubs changes during emotions and how emotion network properties make some individuals more vulnerable to affective symptoms than others. A multidisciplinary approach is critical for understanding the dynamic brain network to advance neuroanatomical models of emotions and for guiding the development of novel treatments for affective symptoms.
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Verify against primary sources
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05152992 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Francisco
- Last refreshed: 6 June 2025
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