In response: The RNS System multicenter randomized double-blinded controlled trial of responsive cortical stimulation for adjunctive treatment of intractable partial epilepsy: knowledge and insights gained.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Deep brain and cortical stimulation for epilepsy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
   Pooled it
2. Modulating limbic circuits in temporal lobe epilepsy: impacts on seizures, memory, mood and sleep.Brain communications · 2025
   Article
3. Case report: Bridging limbic network epilepsy with psychiatric, memory, and sleep comorbidities: case illustrations of reversible psychosis symptoms during continuous, high-frequency ANT-DBS.Frontiers in network physiology · 2024
   Article
4. Distributed brain co-processor for tracking spikes, seizures and behaviour during electrical brain stimulation.Brain communications · 2022
   Article
5. Neurostimulation as a Method of Treatment and a Preventive Measure in Canine Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Current State and Future Prospects.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022
   Review
6. Integrating Brain Implants With Local and Distributed Computing Devices: A Next Generation Epilepsy Management System.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2018
   Article
7. Emerging surgical therapies in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy.Translational pediatrics · 2016
   Review
8. Critical review of the responsive neurostimulator system for epilepsy.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015
   Review

Corrections and comments

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  The NeuroPace trial: missing knowledge and insights.2014

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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