Table 2.
Clinical differences between Acute Unstable Depressive Syndrome (AUDS) (n = 16) and Major Depressive Episode (n = 16) groups.
| Valid no. |
AUDS patients |
MDE patients |
P value* | |
| Seizures in clinical history | 32 | 6/16 | 0/16 | 0.018 |
| Fulfilling clinical criteria for epilepsy | 32 | 5/16 | 0/16 | 0.043 |
| Focal or generalized slow, or epileptiform EEG activity** | 32 | 8/16 | 1/16 | 0.015 |
| Cerebral MRI pathology (any) | 26 | 2/13 | 2/13 | 1.0 |
| Pathological findings at clinical neurological examination indicative of CNS pathology' | 24 | 3/11 | 1/13 | 0.60 |
*Fisher exact tests.
**No of patients with ≥2 pathological features