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Natural History of Metabolic Abnormalities in Children With Epilepsy

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What is being collected

Data Collection

Who is being recruted

Epileptic Syndromes
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+ Brain Diseases
+ Central Nervous System Diseases
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How is the trial designed

Observational
Study Start: April 1992
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Summary

Principal SponsorNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Last updated: January 18, 2026
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Study start date: April 1, 1992Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

We propose to study children with recent onset partial epilepsy, cryptogenic infantile spasms, and idiopathic Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome with serial FDG-PET to elucidate the natural history and evolution of metabolic abnormalities associated with such epilepsies. The severity of the seizure disorder, and cognitive impairment, when present, will be correlated with the presence and extent of focal and global cerebral metabolic abnormalities.

Official TitleNatural History of Metabolic Abnormalities in Children With Epilepsy 
NCT00001325
Principal SponsorNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Last updated: January 18, 2026
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Protocol

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Design Details
80 patients to be enrolledTotal number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Eligibility

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Conditions
Criteria
Any sexBiological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.
Healthy volunteers not allowedIf individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.
Conditions
Pathology
Epileptic Syndromes
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Epilepsy
Epilepsies, Partial
Epilepsy, Generalized
Metabolic Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Seizures
Spasms, Infantile
Criteria

INCLUSION CRITERIA: Patients with partial seizures, infantile spasms and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome will be selected. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Evidence of a structural lesion as cause for epilepsy. Degenerative or metabolic disease. Inability to comply with the protocol.

Study Centers

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This study has 1 location
Suspended
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)Bethesda, United StatesSee the location
CompletedOne Study Center