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Linking Digital Smartphone Behaviour With Brain Function
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Trial ID: NCT03516162
Purpose
This study will thus examine daily behaviour based on smartphone use and link it to the
neurological and neuropsychological status as well as to neuroradiological studies that are
part of the clinical routine. The study will examine behaviour changes before and after
surgery, and how this change in measured behaviour with the smartphone relates to today's
"gold standard", namely professional neuropsychological examination and quantification of
brain damage on imaging studies (MRI).
This study is a proof-of-principle study that intends to build the basis for larger future
observational studies on patients with focal or diffuse brain pathologies.
Official Title
Linking Day-to-day Digital Behaviour Captured on the Smartphone With Brain Function in Patients Undergoing Brain Surgery - the "Smart Surgery" Study
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Consent of the patient
- Age: ≥18
- Fluent language skills in German
- Patient is scheduled for either maximum safe resection of a brain tumour/AVM via
craniotomy or VP-shunting for hydrocephalus
- Patient is capable to use a smartphone (based on the Google Android system) and uses a
smartphone since at least 3 months
- Preoperative smartphone-assessed day-to-day behaviour can be recorded for at least 1
week (7 days)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of known neurologic or psychiatric disease other than brain tumour/AVM or
hydrocephalus that can potentially influence the performance of a patient while using
the smartphone (e.g. dementia, multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder)
- Foreseeable difficulties in follow-up due to geographic reasons (e.g. patients living
abroad)
- Patients enrolled in a different clinical trial according to KlinV (participation in
another research project according to HFV is allowed, if this is not a burden to the
patient)
Intervention(s):
other: There is no study-specific intervention
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Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305