Benzodiazepines sensitivity testing. A pragmatic clinical approach to identify potentially useful GABAergic antiepileptic medications
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine how benzodiazepine (BZD) sensitivity testing might be utilized to choose potentially useful antiepileptic drugs. METHODS: A retrospective audit of BZD sensitivity testing was carried out on 76 difficult pediatric epileptic cases that attended the Pediatric Neurology services at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh, Scotland from February 2005 to February 2006. The causes and types of epilepsy varied widely, as well as the encephalographic (EEG) findings. The EEG changes post-test are categorized according to the response to BZDs into "complete," "intermediate," "paradoxical" and "absent response." Similarly, the clinical outcomes after changing their antiepileptic medications have different ranges of clinical improvement from "definitive," "partial" and "no improvement." RESULTS: The largest percentages of definitive improvement are seen in those with complete response. The percentage with clinical improvement tends to decrease a) with increasing numbers and amplitudes of spikes that are resistant to the action of BZD, and b) when there is a paucity of, and different distribution of fast rhythms, indicating non-viability of cortical tissues. High spike density regions in the EEG pre-test that correlate with a specific pathology, and are found post-test to be devoid of fast rhythms, may indicate focally damaged gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor areas. CONCLUSION: The BZD sensitivity testing may influence the choice of anticonvulsants in the management of epilepsy.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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