Table 1.

Characteristics of the study participants.

RE stands for rolandic epilepsy, AED stands for anti epileptic drug. Note that age at onset and epilepsy duration are difficult to accurately establish given the mild and nocturnal nature of RE seizures.

Subject characteristics	RE	Controls
N	24	24
Age [y]	11.3 ± 1.9	10.6 ± 1.8
Age at epilepsy onset [y]	7.3 ± 2.2	n.a.
Epilepsy duration [y]	2.4 ± 2.0	n.a.
Gender (male/female)	15/9	14/10
Handedness (r/l/ambidexter)	20/3/1	22/2/0
Number of AEDs (0/1/> 1)	8/11/5	n.a.