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Record W2507711914 · doi:10.1093/brain/aww202

Is epilepsy a curable neurodegenerative disease?

2016· letter· en· W2507711914 on OpenAlexaff
Neda Bernasconi

Bibliographic record

VenueBrain · 2016
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEpilepsy research and treatment
Canadian institutionsMontreal Neurological Institute and HospitalMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpilepsyDiseaseNeuroscienceMedicinePsychologyPathology

Abstract

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This scientific commentary refers to ‘Hyperphosphorylated tau in patients with refractory epilepsy correlates with cognitive decline: a study of temporal lobe resections’, by Tai et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/aww187) . Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most frequent focal epilepsy in adults. The epileptogenic network responsible for seizures encompasses multiple limbic structures including the hippocampus and neighbouring cortices. The histomorphological hallmark of TLE is mesial temporal sclerosis, described originally in post-mortem studies as neuronal loss and gliosis in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and amygdala. About a third of patients do not respond to anti-epileptic medication despite continued development of new molecules. Drug-resistant TLE is a serious chronic condition associated with high risk for psychosocial impairment, cognitive decline and mortality. In these patients, surgery is currently the only therapeutic solution to reduce the seizure burden and, in many instances, cure the epilepsy. MRI has been instrumental in TLE surgery by allowing the in vivo detection of neuronal loss and gliosis as indexed by hippocampal atrophy on T1-weighted MRI and increased signal in T2-weighted images. In this issue of Brain , Tai and co-workers provide compelling evidence that long-standing epilepsy is associated with tauopathy, providing a basis for conceptualizing TLE, and possibly all epilepsies, as neurodegenerative disorders (Tai et al. , 2016). In the strictest sense, neurodegeneration refers to pathology affecting neuronal structure and consequently function. In practice, neurodegenerative diseases form an ensemble of conditions with heterogeneous pathological …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.228
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2016
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