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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2015 Feb 21;66:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.001

Table 1. Group characteristics.

Characteristics of controls and epilepsy participants by subsyndrome (mean and SD); FSIQ, full-scale intelligence quotient; BECT=benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes; BOE=benign occipital epilepsy; TLE=temporal lobe epilepsy; CAE=childhood absence epilepsy; JAE=juvenile absence epilepsy; JME=juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; PGE=primary generalized epilepsy.

Variable Healthy Controls (n=80) Patients (n=127)
Age (y, SD) 12.69 (3.17) 12.31 (3.17)
Sex (number female) 39 60
FSIQ (total, SD) 107.65 (12.01) 101.29(13.61)
Age of seizure onset (y, SD) 11.44 (3.25)
Duration (months, SD) 8.65 (3.53)
Specific Syndrome BECT=31
BOE=2
TLE=12
Focal=11
CAE=10
JAE=6
JME=32
PGE/IGE NOS=12
Frontal=9
n.s.=2