Project

Emotion control in patients with comorbidity of epilepsy and depression

Code
3F007611
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Neurological and neuromuscular diseases
    • Neurophysiology
Keywords
epilepsy depression emotion control
 
Project description

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.