NCT07451093

Epileptiform Potential of Fully Immersive Virtual Reality

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to determine if the use of virtual reality headsets results in an increased risk of seizure in adolescent and adult individuals with epilepsy. The main question it aims to answer are: \- does use of virtual reality headsets with hand controllers result in a higher risk of seizure compared to use of virtual reality headsets without hand controllers Participants will be asked to wear a virtual reality headset during continuous video EEG recording and EEG with be evaluated during three phases: with display turned off, with display turned on without hand controllers, and with display turned on with hand controllers.

Conditions

• Epilepsy
• Seizure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Reality Headset, display off	15 minutes of EEG recording with VR headset worn, display turned off. This will act as a baseline for intervention 2 and 3
OTHER	Virtual Reality Headset, Display only	15 minutes of EEG recording with VR headset worn, display turned on without access to hand controls.
OTHER	Virtual Reality Headset, Display and Hand Control	15 minutes of EEG recording with VR headset worn, display turned on with access to hand controls

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-01
• Primary completion: 2027-04-01
• Completion: 2027-04-01
• First posted: 2026-03-05
• Last updated: 2026-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States