Predicting mood decline following temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults

Objective To develop a model to predict the probability of mood decline in adults following temporal lobe resection for the treatment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Methods Variable selection was performed on 492 patients from the Cleveland Clinic using best subsets regression. After completing variable selection, a subset of variables was requested from four epilepsy surgery centers across North America ( n = 100). All data were combined to...