ABRET EEG EXAM 800 2026 COMPREHENSIVE
EEG TECHNOLOGY AND NEURODIAGNOSTIC
REVIEW MATERIALS
◉ activation procedures should be AVOIDED in a patient with a
recent intracranial hemorrhage?
Answer: Hyperventilation
◉ What is the indentation between the nose and the forehead?
Answer: Nasion
◉ BENIGN EPILEPTIFORM TRANSIENTS OF SLEEP
Answer: peak at 30-60 years
◉ Which of the following time constants would best display delta
activity?
Answer: 1.0 second
◉ STAGE N3 (STAGE 3/4) SLEEP
Answer: 30% delta activity
◉ Ictal
,Answer: During
◉ What is the likely focus and the polarity of the sharply contoured
wave in the box?
Answer: Fp1 Negative
◉ Atonic seizure
Answer: Loss of whole body muscle tone
◉ MENINGITIS
Answer: Nuchal rigidity
◉ Which mathematically converts the time function into a sine wave
of different frequencies?
Answer: Fast Fourier Transform
◉ PLEDS are most likely to be seen in a patient presenting with:
Answer: Cerebral embolus
◉ Which normal waveform is NOT typically seen in the posterior
leads?
Answer: Wickets
,◉ Which of the following is most useful in the evaluation of
temporal lobe seizures?
Answer: Sleep EEG
◉ The pattern which disappears at the youngest conceptional age is
Answer: delta brushes
◉ At the onset of sleep, a 40-week conceptional age infant is most
likely to enter into which of the following stages of sleep?
Answer: Active
◉ Which of the following occurs during a typical absence seizure?
Answer: Impaired consciousness
◉ A 9 mm deflection at a setting of 20 microvolts/mm will have an
input signal of
Answer: 180 microvolts
◉ Why is it not best practice to allow an outpatient to sleep
throughout the entire EEG recording?
Answer: Unable to evaluate the patient\'s background rhythm
, ◉ Which of the following is the most appropriate instrumentation
setting change that should be made in order to enhance cortical
slowing?
Answer: Change the LFF from 1 Hz. To .1 Hz.
◉ Which of the following stimuli is most likely to be a trigger for
Reflex Seizures?
Answer: Writing
◉ What is a sub harmonic response to photic stimulation?
Answer: Photic driving at half the speed of the flash rate
◉ Using the International 10-20 electrode placements, if the
distance from Fp2 to F4 is 5.5 cm, what is the distance from P4 to
02?
Answer: 5.5 cm
◉ Signals common to both inputs of a differential amplifier with like
frequency, amplitude and phase are:
Answer: canceled
◉ With rapidly increasing dosage, which of the following
medications will have the most sedative effect on the patient?
Answer: Barbiturates
EEG TECHNOLOGY AND NEURODIAGNOSTIC
REVIEW MATERIALS
◉ activation procedures should be AVOIDED in a patient with a
recent intracranial hemorrhage?
Answer: Hyperventilation
◉ What is the indentation between the nose and the forehead?
Answer: Nasion
◉ BENIGN EPILEPTIFORM TRANSIENTS OF SLEEP
Answer: peak at 30-60 years
◉ Which of the following time constants would best display delta
activity?
Answer: 1.0 second
◉ STAGE N3 (STAGE 3/4) SLEEP
Answer: 30% delta activity
◉ Ictal
,Answer: During
◉ What is the likely focus and the polarity of the sharply contoured
wave in the box?
Answer: Fp1 Negative
◉ Atonic seizure
Answer: Loss of whole body muscle tone
◉ MENINGITIS
Answer: Nuchal rigidity
◉ Which mathematically converts the time function into a sine wave
of different frequencies?
Answer: Fast Fourier Transform
◉ PLEDS are most likely to be seen in a patient presenting with:
Answer: Cerebral embolus
◉ Which normal waveform is NOT typically seen in the posterior
leads?
Answer: Wickets
,◉ Which of the following is most useful in the evaluation of
temporal lobe seizures?
Answer: Sleep EEG
◉ The pattern which disappears at the youngest conceptional age is
Answer: delta brushes
◉ At the onset of sleep, a 40-week conceptional age infant is most
likely to enter into which of the following stages of sleep?
Answer: Active
◉ Which of the following occurs during a typical absence seizure?
Answer: Impaired consciousness
◉ A 9 mm deflection at a setting of 20 microvolts/mm will have an
input signal of
Answer: 180 microvolts
◉ Why is it not best practice to allow an outpatient to sleep
throughout the entire EEG recording?
Answer: Unable to evaluate the patient\'s background rhythm
, ◉ Which of the following is the most appropriate instrumentation
setting change that should be made in order to enhance cortical
slowing?
Answer: Change the LFF from 1 Hz. To .1 Hz.
◉ Which of the following stimuli is most likely to be a trigger for
Reflex Seizures?
Answer: Writing
◉ What is a sub harmonic response to photic stimulation?
Answer: Photic driving at half the speed of the flash rate
◉ Using the International 10-20 electrode placements, if the
distance from Fp2 to F4 is 5.5 cm, what is the distance from P4 to
02?
Answer: 5.5 cm
◉ Signals common to both inputs of a differential amplifier with like
frequency, amplitude and phase are:
Answer: canceled
◉ With rapidly increasing dosage, which of the following
medications will have the most sedative effect on the patient?
Answer: Barbiturates
