Gray and White Matter Volumes and Cognitive Dysfunction in Drug-Naïve Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Epilepsy

Table 1

Demographic data of the epilepsy and control groups.

Patient number	Epilepsy group		Control group
	Focal epilepsy	Generalized epilepsy
Number of patients	21	9	25
Age (years)	10.5 ± 2.9		11.1 ± 3.0
Gender (M : F)	16 : 14		13 : 12
Education duration	4.6 ± 3.1 years		4.9 ± 3.2 years
Duration of epilepsy	3.4 ± 2.5 months
Epileptic syndromes	BECTS 13; BCEOP 2; FLE 4; TLE 2	JME 5; CAE 2; JAE 1; IGE 1

M: male; F: female; BECTS: benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, BCEOP: benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysm, FLE: frontal lobe epilepsy, TLE: temporal lobe epilepsy, JME: juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, CAE: childhood absence epilepsy; JAE, juvenile absence epilepsy, IGE: idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Data are shown as means ± standard deviation.