CLTM FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔**Functional brain mapping is used to define and confine the excision to - ✔✔Non-
eloquent cortex
✔✔Triphasic Waves - ✔✔metabolic encephalopathy
✔✔**Which of the following conditions does ACNS NOT recommend long term
monitoring for neonates - ✔✔autonomic paroxysms
✔✔**Vasospasm - ✔✔Arterial vessel constriction
✔✔Strip and grid electrodes are composed of - ✔✔Stainless steel or platinum
✔✔SPECT - ✔✔Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
✔✔Hypsarrhythmia is a pattern most often associated with - ✔✔Infantile spasms
✔✔Evaluating the sample EEG given, which of the following diagnosis is most likely -
✔✔Hippocampal Sclerosis
✔✔Functional mapping of eloquent cortex includes - ✔✔Motor, sensory and language
✔✔Artifact seen when an electrode is sitting over a vessel - ✔✔Pulse artifact
✔✔According to the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC), the main
difference between a level 3 and level 4 Epilepsy Center is that a Level 3 center - ✔✔Is
not able to perform intracranial evaluations and is not able to offer complex resective
epilepsy surgery
✔✔Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - ✔✔Aphasia
✔✔Per ACNS Guidelines, an important aspect of montage design for LTME is to clearly
separate activity from the - ✔✔Basal temporal and 10/20 cortical derivations
✔✔SI or SIRPIDS patterns are induced by - ✔✔Stimulus
✔✔**Where are sphenoidal locations are used to record epileptiform activity - ✔✔the
mesial or anterior aspects of the temporal lobe
✔✔Which contacts would show an abnormality if the patient was experiencing
expressive aphasia - ✔✔33-34
, ✔✔Therapeutic hypothermia is indicated for better outcome in adult patients with -
✔✔Cardiac arrest
✔✔**Anterior tongue and lip bites often indicate - ✔✔non-epileptic seizure
✔✔Focal seizures with symptoms of "tingling" sensations in the face likely originate in -
✔✔inferior post-central gyrus
✔✔**WADA - ✔✔homunculus mapping
✔✔**Sphedoidal electrodes - ✔✔anterior tip of temporal lobe
✔✔Which of the following electrodes from the 10-20 system would be useful on a
patient with suspected benign rolandic epilepsy - ✔✔CP1
✔✔**Which polarity and electrode signal generates from the Motor cortex when doing
phase reversal monitoring - ✔✔Positive Polarity, P22
✔✔Collodion - ✔✔flammable liquid
✔✔T1 and T2 electrode placement - ✔✔1 cm superior to 1/3 of the distance from the
external eye canthus and the tragus (third closet to tragus)
✔✔According to the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) 2015 Guidelines for
Status Epilepticus (SE), SE can result in neuronal injury and functional deficits are likely
after - ✔✔30 minutes
✔✔**An EEG finding that can be seen with Absence epilepsy - ✔✔OIRDA
✔✔Ictal weeping and pelvic thrusting may indicate - ✔✔Non-epileptic events
✔✔The recommended duration for cEEG in a non-comatose patient suspected of
having non-conclusive seizures is - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔Vagus nerve stimulators are approved for use in patients with - ✔✔partial seizures
✔✔Cortical stimulation near the inferior frontal gyrus will most likely result in -
✔✔Expressive aphasia
✔✔**Which of the following is primarily limited to selected catastrophic infant and early
childhood epilepsies - ✔✔Hemispherectomy
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔**Functional brain mapping is used to define and confine the excision to - ✔✔Non-
eloquent cortex
✔✔Triphasic Waves - ✔✔metabolic encephalopathy
✔✔**Which of the following conditions does ACNS NOT recommend long term
monitoring for neonates - ✔✔autonomic paroxysms
✔✔**Vasospasm - ✔✔Arterial vessel constriction
✔✔Strip and grid electrodes are composed of - ✔✔Stainless steel or platinum
✔✔SPECT - ✔✔Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
✔✔Hypsarrhythmia is a pattern most often associated with - ✔✔Infantile spasms
✔✔Evaluating the sample EEG given, which of the following diagnosis is most likely -
✔✔Hippocampal Sclerosis
✔✔Functional mapping of eloquent cortex includes - ✔✔Motor, sensory and language
✔✔Artifact seen when an electrode is sitting over a vessel - ✔✔Pulse artifact
✔✔According to the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC), the main
difference between a level 3 and level 4 Epilepsy Center is that a Level 3 center - ✔✔Is
not able to perform intracranial evaluations and is not able to offer complex resective
epilepsy surgery
✔✔Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - ✔✔Aphasia
✔✔Per ACNS Guidelines, an important aspect of montage design for LTME is to clearly
separate activity from the - ✔✔Basal temporal and 10/20 cortical derivations
✔✔SI or SIRPIDS patterns are induced by - ✔✔Stimulus
✔✔**Where are sphenoidal locations are used to record epileptiform activity - ✔✔the
mesial or anterior aspects of the temporal lobe
✔✔Which contacts would show an abnormality if the patient was experiencing
expressive aphasia - ✔✔33-34
, ✔✔Therapeutic hypothermia is indicated for better outcome in adult patients with -
✔✔Cardiac arrest
✔✔**Anterior tongue and lip bites often indicate - ✔✔non-epileptic seizure
✔✔Focal seizures with symptoms of "tingling" sensations in the face likely originate in -
✔✔inferior post-central gyrus
✔✔**WADA - ✔✔homunculus mapping
✔✔**Sphedoidal electrodes - ✔✔anterior tip of temporal lobe
✔✔Which of the following electrodes from the 10-20 system would be useful on a
patient with suspected benign rolandic epilepsy - ✔✔CP1
✔✔**Which polarity and electrode signal generates from the Motor cortex when doing
phase reversal monitoring - ✔✔Positive Polarity, P22
✔✔Collodion - ✔✔flammable liquid
✔✔T1 and T2 electrode placement - ✔✔1 cm superior to 1/3 of the distance from the
external eye canthus and the tragus (third closet to tragus)
✔✔According to the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) 2015 Guidelines for
Status Epilepticus (SE), SE can result in neuronal injury and functional deficits are likely
after - ✔✔30 minutes
✔✔**An EEG finding that can be seen with Absence epilepsy - ✔✔OIRDA
✔✔Ictal weeping and pelvic thrusting may indicate - ✔✔Non-epileptic events
✔✔The recommended duration for cEEG in a non-comatose patient suspected of
having non-conclusive seizures is - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔Vagus nerve stimulators are approved for use in patients with - ✔✔partial seizures
✔✔Cortical stimulation near the inferior frontal gyrus will most likely result in -
✔✔Expressive aphasia
✔✔**Which of the following is primarily limited to selected catastrophic infant and early
childhood epilepsies - ✔✔Hemispherectomy
