Table 1. Patient population.

Patient population by age, gender, IQ, diagnostic details and treatment of epilepsy prior to and at the beginning of the program, given as the mean and standard deviation (SD) or as total patient number (and in percent) for each diagnostic certainty group. The information concerning unilateral and bilateral focal impairment was not available in all cases with partial seizures.

	All Patients N = 60	Definite Epilepsy N = 20	Probable Epilepsy N = 40
Age, Mean Years ± SD	28 ± 12	28 ± 13	27 ± 11
Mean IQ ± SD	129 ± 19	128 ± 21	130 ± 17
MeanYrs since 1st spell± SD	17 ± 12	16 ± 12	18 ± 12
Mean N° of AEDs ± SD	1.7 ± 0.9	1.9 ± 0.8	1.5 ± 0.8
Mean N° of AEDTrials ± SD	3.1 ± 2.2	3.8 ± 2.5	2.9 ± 1.9
Failed at least 2 AED Trials	34 (57%)	13 (65%)	21 (52%)
Resective Epilepsy Surgery	6 (10%)	1 (5%)	5 (12%)
Gender
Male	30 (50%)	10 (50%)	20 (50%)
Female	30 (50%)	10 (50%)	20 (50%)
Type of Seizure Disorder
Primary Generalized	9 (15%)	1 (6%)	8 (20%)
Partial	51 (85%)	19(95%)	32 (80%)
Type of Partial Epilepsy	N = 51	N = 19	N = 32
Secondarily generalized	38 (75%)	16( 84%)	22 (69%)
Lateralization
Unilateral	18 (35%)	7 (37%)	11 (34%)
Bilateral	22 (43%)	8 (42%)	14 (43%)