Brian Litt

So George, here is a question I love.

What if you could have a conversation with your implantable medical device? A University of Pennsylvania team led by neurologist Brian Litt has published a study in nature medicine that does a version of exactly that.

The researchers have demonstrated a system that allows people with epilepsy to have conversations with their own brain monitoring data.

So instead of a medical device simply collecting information and sending it over to a clinician and or the device manufacturer, the patient can actually ask questions about what's happening in their own brain in real time.

Your patients don't use frontier models either.

In Nature Medicine on October 13th, a Penn team led by neurologist Brian Litt let patients text with the brainwave monitor recording them.

Thirteen adults in Penn's epilepsy monitoring unit exchanged 1,307 messages with the system, asking about their recordings, logging mood and sleep, and telling it which seizure alerts were wrong.

That feedback improved the detector's seizure calls, though the press release gives no figure.