AED Quiz | Episode 05 | Audio Epilepsy Digest

1. Which statement best summarizes the episode's practical message? Sleep treatment has been proven to prevent dementia in focal epilepsy. Cognition is becoming easier to measure and partly actionable, but major causal claims remain unproven. IC-CoDE is ready for individual clinical decision-making. Rehabilitation clearly restores objective memory in epilepsy.

Correct answer: B. The episode is cautiously useful: measurable and partly actionable does not mean causally settled or practice-changing.

2. How should the rehabilitation trial be interpreted? It supports patient-reported quality-of-life and anxiety benefit more strongly than objective delayed-recall improvement. It proves objective memory recovery. It eliminates the need for neuropsychological assessment. It applies equally to all epilepsy populations.

Correct answer: A. The show note makes the patient-reported signal stronger than the objective delayed-recall signal.

3. What is the correct caveat for Zelano et al.? The study establishes a causal ranking of antiseizure medications. The findings are registry-based associations and vulnerable to residual confounding. The study should be ignored because it is observational. ASM survival is unrelated to clinical decision-making.

Correct answer: B. The episode treats first-ASM survival as clinically important but not as causal medication ranking.

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