EEG BOARD UPDATED TESTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔What montage should be used for an ECI according to guidelines? - ✔✔double
distance
✔✔which filter setting will record the greatest effect on a 70 Hz wave? - ✔✔70 Hz
✔✔what is most attenuated by a low filter of 5 Hz - ✔✔.1 Hz
✔✔what localization is most used in referential montages? - ✔✔amplitude
✔✔A patient with ms will have what type of EEG? - ✔✔normal
✔✔what is the value in psychiatric disorders? - ✔✔rules out seizures
✔✔If a patient has a skull defect it is very important to what? - ✔✔document history
✔✔When evaluating abnormal discharges what 2 things should you document? -
✔✔level of consciousness and movement
✔✔what activity will be seen on an EEG 2 days after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) -
✔✔normal
✔✔With rapidly increasing dosage, which medications will have the most sedative effect
on the patient? - ✔✔barbituates
✔✔What is used to treat infantile spasms? - ✔✔ACTH
✔✔The main difference between simple partial and complex partial is what? -
✔✔preservation of consciousness
✔✔The onset of west syndrome is most likely to occur at what age? - ✔✔4 months
✔✔This childhood disorder is characterized by acquired aphasia, multifocal epileptiform
abnormalities and focal or generalized seizures. - ✔✔Landau-Kleffner syndrome
✔✔What is a characteristic of CJD? - ✔✔myoclonus
✔✔Sterge - Weber disease begins at what age? - ✔✔infancy or birth
✔✔An abbreviated 10-20 placement, respiration, ECG, and EOG monitors should be
used when recording what age? - ✔✔neonates
, ✔✔What disease has characteristics of high amplitude spikes in the occipital region and
is time locked with a slow photic stimulus rate in young children? - ✔✔Batten's disease
✔✔what type of activity will you usually see on an interictal EEG of a child with a history
of febrile seizures. - ✔✔normal
✔✔slow spike and wave complexes are characteristics of which syndrome? -
✔✔Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
✔✔Aphasia is associated with what syndrome? - ✔✔Landau-Kleffner syndrome
✔✔What disease or syndrome will not typically see PLEDs or PEDs? - ✔✔Lennox-
Gastaut syndrome
✔✔What EEG pattern is commonly associated with West syndrome? -
✔✔hypsarrhythmia
✔✔In a normal 28 week pre term infant the EEG should show what type of normal
pattern? - ✔✔trace discontinu
✔✔What is the name of the encephalopathic EEG pattern most commonly seen with
children? - ✔✔OIRDA
✔✔A post dominant rhythm that is reactive to eye closure should first appear around
what age? - ✔✔3-6 months
✔✔This EEG pattern is commonly considered voltage theta or delta waves, seen in
children 8-14 years old, and are accentuated by hyperventilation. - ✔✔Posterior slow
waves of youth
✔✔what is posterior slow waves of youth also called? - ✔✔PSWY
✔✔when comparing EEG recordings from both adults and children the pediatric may
have amplitude that is what? - ✔✔higher
✔✔Infantile spasms are also known as what type of event? - ✔✔electrodecremental
events
✔✔When are asynchronous sleep spindles considered to be abnormal? - ✔✔after 2
years of age.
✔✔An awake 5 month old infant will have a PDR of what? - ✔✔5 Hz
RATED A+
✔✔What montage should be used for an ECI according to guidelines? - ✔✔double
distance
✔✔which filter setting will record the greatest effect on a 70 Hz wave? - ✔✔70 Hz
✔✔what is most attenuated by a low filter of 5 Hz - ✔✔.1 Hz
✔✔what localization is most used in referential montages? - ✔✔amplitude
✔✔A patient with ms will have what type of EEG? - ✔✔normal
✔✔what is the value in psychiatric disorders? - ✔✔rules out seizures
✔✔If a patient has a skull defect it is very important to what? - ✔✔document history
✔✔When evaluating abnormal discharges what 2 things should you document? -
✔✔level of consciousness and movement
✔✔what activity will be seen on an EEG 2 days after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) -
✔✔normal
✔✔With rapidly increasing dosage, which medications will have the most sedative effect
on the patient? - ✔✔barbituates
✔✔What is used to treat infantile spasms? - ✔✔ACTH
✔✔The main difference between simple partial and complex partial is what? -
✔✔preservation of consciousness
✔✔The onset of west syndrome is most likely to occur at what age? - ✔✔4 months
✔✔This childhood disorder is characterized by acquired aphasia, multifocal epileptiform
abnormalities and focal or generalized seizures. - ✔✔Landau-Kleffner syndrome
✔✔What is a characteristic of CJD? - ✔✔myoclonus
✔✔Sterge - Weber disease begins at what age? - ✔✔infancy or birth
✔✔An abbreviated 10-20 placement, respiration, ECG, and EOG monitors should be
used when recording what age? - ✔✔neonates
, ✔✔What disease has characteristics of high amplitude spikes in the occipital region and
is time locked with a slow photic stimulus rate in young children? - ✔✔Batten's disease
✔✔what type of activity will you usually see on an interictal EEG of a child with a history
of febrile seizures. - ✔✔normal
✔✔slow spike and wave complexes are characteristics of which syndrome? -
✔✔Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
✔✔Aphasia is associated with what syndrome? - ✔✔Landau-Kleffner syndrome
✔✔What disease or syndrome will not typically see PLEDs or PEDs? - ✔✔Lennox-
Gastaut syndrome
✔✔What EEG pattern is commonly associated with West syndrome? -
✔✔hypsarrhythmia
✔✔In a normal 28 week pre term infant the EEG should show what type of normal
pattern? - ✔✔trace discontinu
✔✔What is the name of the encephalopathic EEG pattern most commonly seen with
children? - ✔✔OIRDA
✔✔A post dominant rhythm that is reactive to eye closure should first appear around
what age? - ✔✔3-6 months
✔✔This EEG pattern is commonly considered voltage theta or delta waves, seen in
children 8-14 years old, and are accentuated by hyperventilation. - ✔✔Posterior slow
waves of youth
✔✔what is posterior slow waves of youth also called? - ✔✔PSWY
✔✔when comparing EEG recordings from both adults and children the pediatric may
have amplitude that is what? - ✔✔higher
✔✔Infantile spasms are also known as what type of event? - ✔✔electrodecremental
events
✔✔When are asynchronous sleep spindles considered to be abnormal? - ✔✔after 2
years of age.
✔✔An awake 5 month old infant will have a PDR of what? - ✔✔5 Hz
