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Lead
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Age
18–70
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Disabling motor simple partial seizures, complex partial seizures, and/or secondarily generalized seizures. Disabling refers to seizures that are severe enough to significantly impair functional abilities in areas such as employment, psychological or social wellbeing, education or mobility.
Failed treatment with a minimum of two antiepileptic medications.
Experienced an average of three or more disabling simple weekly partial seizures, complex partial seizures and/or secondarily generalized seizures.
Between the ages of 18 and 70 years.
No more than two epileptogenic regions in the brain.
Must be able to provide informed consent themselves.
\- Healthy subjects age 18 and older
You may not be if
Has a progressive neurological or systemic disease.
Has a history of nonepileptic seizures.
Has an implanted metallic device, aneurysm clips, cochlear implants, or spinal cord stimulator.
Has suffered a severe traumatic brain injury with skull fracture.
Contraindications to tDCS
* metal in the head
* implanted brain medical devices
Pregnancy
Any implanted electrical medical device, including pacers and implanted cardiac defibrillators
Existence of major neurologic or psychiatric condition (i.e. epilepsy, severe depression)
History of head injury resulting in more than a momentary loss of consciousness
Previous neurosurgery
A history of significant alcohol or drug abuse in the prior 6 months
Presence of unstable medical conditions, such as; uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, cardiac pathology, cancer, kidney insufficiency, acute thrombosis
