. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 24.

Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2014 Feb 11;55(4):519–527. doi: 10.1111/epi.12540

Table 1.

Characteristics of patients and controls

	Patients (n = 48)		Controls (n = 27)
	Left-sided epilepsy (n = 29)	Right-sided epilepsy (n = 19)	Controls (n = 27)
Age	13.5 (2.9)	13.5 (3.0)	13.9 (3.0)
Female:male	14:15	13:6	12:15
Intelligence quotient	91.2 (15.2)	94.7 (16.0)	113.2 (9.5)
Type of epilepsy
Frontal lobe	13	11
Temporal lobe	14	4
Other	2	4
Age at seizure onset (years)	7.7 (3.3)	8.6 (4.2)
Duration of epilepsy (years)	5.4 (3.4)	4.8 (2.9)
Seizure frequency (per week)	6.7 (11.0)	12.7 (27.0)
Number of antiepileptic medications	2.1 (0.7)	2.1 (0.7)

SD, standard deviation.