The ability of executive functions to predict deterioration in social abstraction in adolescents with idiopathic generalized epilepsy

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 4 Effect of interictal EEG findings on executive functions in the patient group

	Normal EEG N=22	Interictal epileptic discharge N=38	P value
	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	P value
Planning	5.52±3.32	5.92±3.193	0.062
Cognitive flexibility	4.88±1.31	5.78±1.13	0.041^*
Inhibition	5.11±2.76	5.12±3.11	0.073
Verbal fluency	15.87±5.233	16.48±5.45	0.022^*