Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants.

	Healthy controls (n = 48)	Epilepsy non-anxious (n = 62)	Epilepsy and anxiety (n = 24)
Age (mean ± SD)	13.30 ± 3.17	12.85 ± 3.50	12.05 ± 2.93
Sex (male/female)	21/27	33/29	9/15
Education	7.02 ± 3.03	6.83 ± 3.65	5.87 ± 2.85
IQ⁎ (mean ± SD)	108.8 ± 10.6	102.1 ± 15.2	101.7 ± 15.6
Syndrome onset (months: mean ± SD)	–	6.63 ± 3.65	7.26 ± 3.89
AED (yes/no)	–	54/8	17/7
Epilepsy syndrome (ILRE/IGE)	–	28/34	16/8

^⁎Significant between groups at a p < 0.05. Education represents years of school attendance.