Publications by authors named "M D REUBER"

Objectives: Transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) is one of the most common neurological complaints in the Emergency Department (ED), but little is known about the patient perspective. We aimed to explore patient perceptions of diagnostic assessment for TLOC.

Setting: ED, Acute Medical Unit and Syncope and Neurology clinics in a single tertiary teaching hospital in the north of England.

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Objective: Generalist large language models (LLMs) have shown diagnostic potential in various medical contexts but have not been explored extensively in relation to epilepsy. This paper aims to test the performance of an LLM (OpenAI's GPT-4) on the differential diagnosis of epileptic and functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) based on patients' descriptions.

Methods: GPT-4 was asked to diagnose 41 cases of epilepsy (n = 16) or FDS (n = 25) based on transcripts of patients describing their symptoms (median word count = 399).

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Objectives: Physiotherapy is considered part of first line treatment for functional motor disorder (FMD) although not all patients benefit. Predictors of treatment outcome may help to inform triage decisions. We aimed to determine which baseline variables predicted treatment outcome in the pragmatic multicentre Physio4FMD randomised controlled trial of specialist physiotherapy for FMD.

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Mental health (MH) comorbidities are prevalent among people with epilepsy (PWE), but many experience challenges accessing care. To address this, suggestions have been made to integrate MH care into epilepsy care settings, yet the current approaches, benefits, and implementation determinants to MH care integration are unclear. This review aims to synthesize existing integrated MH care models for PWE to inform the development and planning of future initiatives.

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