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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Brain. 2007 Aug 29;130(Pt 12):3149–3154. doi: 10.1093/brain/awm186

Table 1.

Subjects demographics and clinical characteristics

Left TLE (n = 48)
Right TLE (n = 48)
Controls (n = 28)
Early N = 21 Intermediate N = 8 Late N = 19 Early N = 9 Intermediate N = 13 Late N = 26
Age (years) (Mean/SD) 40.2 ± 11.4 33.5 ± 14.6 42.0 ± 11.2 31.6 ± 10.3 37.3 ± 11.5 40.5 ± 14.3 34.0 ± 11.8
Gender 14 (66.7%)
female
5 (62.5%)
female
11 (47.9%)
female
5 (55.6%)
female
3 (23.1%)
female
10 (38.5%)
female
13 (46.4%)
female
Age at onset (years) 3.0 ± 2.2 9.6 ± 2.5 25.8 ± 9.5 2.9 ± 1.6 10.6 ± 2.5 29.1 ± 11.7
Duration of epilepsy (years) 37.2 ± 10.6 23.9 ± 14.3 16.2 ± 10.8 28.7 ± 9.4 26.7 ± 11.8 11.4 ± 11.2
Total brain volume (mm3) 1449 ± 122* 1475 ± 132 1515 ± 158 1442 ± 153 1585 ± 137 1582 ± 163 1602 ± 151
Total grey matter volume 686 ± 79** 724 ± 67 708 ± 69 707 ± 75 750 ± 47 727 ± 90 777 ± 83
Total white matter volume 407 ± 47* 413 ± 54 421 ± 54 403 ± 56 445 ± 38 460 ± 72 462 ± 52
*

P < 0.05 in comparison to controls.

**

P < 0.001 in comparison to controls.