So, I'm not making any accusations or decelerations of "bad science", I've only read the abstract and this isn't my field.

That said, some relevant context here is that:

(1) Case studies are some of the most easily fabricated journal outputs

(2) This is published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, which is listed by some as being a predatory journal [0]. The Frontiers publishers are the fine folk who published an AI generated anatomical figure of a rat that not only was obviously incorrect to anyone you'd stop on the street, it'd give them nightmares [1].

So I'm not saying this paper is bunk, but that I reserve a healthy degree of skepticism pending some clinical trials or replication in animal models.

[0] https://www.predatoryjournals.org/news/list-of-all-frontiers...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at...