. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Epilepsy Behav. 2014 Mar 23;34:9–14. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.02.034

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical variables for two groups of temporal lobe epilepsy patients: euthymic or mildly depressed (BDI total score < 15), and moderate or severely depressed (BDI total score ≥ 15), mean±SD.

Variable	BDI < 15	BDI ≥ 15
N	15	13
Age	41±11	37±10
Gender (male/female, %)	40/60	61.5/38.5
Age of seizure onset	17±14	16±15
Epilepsy duration (y)	24±17	21±15
Seizure frequency (per month)	8.4±15.8	6.8±4.3
Seizure focus lateralization (left/right/multiple, %)	46.7/40.0/13.3	23.1/53.8/23.1

Total BDI score	3.9±3.8	25.7±12.4