EEG BOARD EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: What is the foramen of munro/interventricular foramen
?
Answer:
opening between lateral ventricles to third ventricle
Question 2: The _____________ is a tract of white matter
connecting hippocampus with hypothalamus
Answer:
fornix
Question 3: 1. Fourteen and/or six Hz positive spikes occur in what
region? 2. When can fourteen and/or six Hz occur? 3. What is the
best montage to view this in?
Answer:
1. Occipital/ posterior temporal
2. drowsy/early sleep
3. contralateral ear reference
Question 4: Frequency equation
Answer:
Frequency=[(mm/paperspeed)]/1000
,Question 5: What EEG patterns with frontal lobe tumor?
Answer:
FIRDA, focal slow, arrhythmic delta activity
Question 6: Where are T1/T2 placed?
Answer:
placed one third of the distance from external acoustic meatus to outer canthus of
the eye, 1 cm above the eye
Question 7: With ______ disease, juvenile form has onset 6-8 yrs,
sz often tonic-clonic or partial motor. EEG progressive
deterioration of background activity, multifocal abnormalities
Answer:
Gaucher
Question 8: With ______ _______, there is laughing. Disease of
hypothalamic hamartomas manifesting with gelastic seizures. This
often evolves to a generalized epileptic encephalopathy with severe
seizures and cognitive and behavioral decline
Answer:
gelastic seizure
Question 9: Gliomas- tumors arising from glial cells (supportive
tissue neurons are imbedded in), 1._____________(40's,50's, focal
spikes and sharps), 2._________(lining central canal/ventricles,
more common children) , 3.________(focal spike EEG, most
common, focal or gen sz), 4.____________("butterfly"-invades via
,corpus callosum, sz, memory loss, headache, malignant, behavior
change), 5.___________ (rapid, children, roof 4th ventricle, listless,
vomit, gait, dizzy). Spread in fingerlike fashion-infiltration makes
surgical removal impossible.
Answer:
1. Oliogodendroglial
2. ependymal
3. astrocytoma
4. gliobastoma multiforme
5. medulloblastomas
Question 10: What is ictal EEG of GTC?
Answer:
Ictal EEG about 10 Hz of gen polyspikes during tonic, and then 1 Hz spike and
wave during clonic
Question 11: _________ _______ is where body's immune system
attacks part of PNS, nerves lose myelin sheath. The first symptoms
of this disorder include varying degrees of weakness or tingling
sensations in the legs. Often, weakness and abnormal sensations
spread to the arms and upper body. Can result in paralysis of
diaphragm
Answer:
Guillain- Barre syndrome
Question 12: ________ is a tumor made of cells normally found in
area of body where it forms. Not malignant. Doesn't metastasize,
but can grow large and damage organ. Found with tuberous
sclerosis.
, Answer:
hamartoma
Question 13: What EEG patterns can be seen with head trauma?
Answer:
EEG may be normal, slightly more gen theta, slow waves, burst suppression,
spindle coma, alpha coma. Hard to call abnormal if no pre-injury EEG
Question 14: What is hemianopsia?
Answer:
decreased vision in half visual field, on one side of vertical midline, usually caused
by single lesion, may be caused by stroke
Question 15: What EEG can be expected with hemispheric white
matter tumor?
Answer:
continuous high amp, gen PDA from destructive lesion
Question 16: What EEG can be seen with hepatic encephalopathy?
Answer:
EEG gen slow to triphasic waves frontally predominant 1.5-3 Hz.
Question 17: What EEG patterns would you see with Herpes
Simplex Encephalitis?
Answer:
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
Question 1: What is the foramen of munro/interventricular foramen
?
Answer:
opening between lateral ventricles to third ventricle
Question 2: The _____________ is a tract of white matter
connecting hippocampus with hypothalamus
Answer:
fornix
Question 3: 1. Fourteen and/or six Hz positive spikes occur in what
region? 2. When can fourteen and/or six Hz occur? 3. What is the
best montage to view this in?
Answer:
1. Occipital/ posterior temporal
2. drowsy/early sleep
3. contralateral ear reference
Question 4: Frequency equation
Answer:
Frequency=[(mm/paperspeed)]/1000
,Question 5: What EEG patterns with frontal lobe tumor?
Answer:
FIRDA, focal slow, arrhythmic delta activity
Question 6: Where are T1/T2 placed?
Answer:
placed one third of the distance from external acoustic meatus to outer canthus of
the eye, 1 cm above the eye
Question 7: With ______ disease, juvenile form has onset 6-8 yrs,
sz often tonic-clonic or partial motor. EEG progressive
deterioration of background activity, multifocal abnormalities
Answer:
Gaucher
Question 8: With ______ _______, there is laughing. Disease of
hypothalamic hamartomas manifesting with gelastic seizures. This
often evolves to a generalized epileptic encephalopathy with severe
seizures and cognitive and behavioral decline
Answer:
gelastic seizure
Question 9: Gliomas- tumors arising from glial cells (supportive
tissue neurons are imbedded in), 1._____________(40's,50's, focal
spikes and sharps), 2._________(lining central canal/ventricles,
more common children) , 3.________(focal spike EEG, most
common, focal or gen sz), 4.____________("butterfly"-invades via
,corpus callosum, sz, memory loss, headache, malignant, behavior
change), 5.___________ (rapid, children, roof 4th ventricle, listless,
vomit, gait, dizzy). Spread in fingerlike fashion-infiltration makes
surgical removal impossible.
Answer:
1. Oliogodendroglial
2. ependymal
3. astrocytoma
4. gliobastoma multiforme
5. medulloblastomas
Question 10: What is ictal EEG of GTC?
Answer:
Ictal EEG about 10 Hz of gen polyspikes during tonic, and then 1 Hz spike and
wave during clonic
Question 11: _________ _______ is where body's immune system
attacks part of PNS, nerves lose myelin sheath. The first symptoms
of this disorder include varying degrees of weakness or tingling
sensations in the legs. Often, weakness and abnormal sensations
spread to the arms and upper body. Can result in paralysis of
diaphragm
Answer:
Guillain- Barre syndrome
Question 12: ________ is a tumor made of cells normally found in
area of body where it forms. Not malignant. Doesn't metastasize,
but can grow large and damage organ. Found with tuberous
sclerosis.
, Answer:
hamartoma
Question 13: What EEG patterns can be seen with head trauma?
Answer:
EEG may be normal, slightly more gen theta, slow waves, burst suppression,
spindle coma, alpha coma. Hard to call abnormal if no pre-injury EEG
Question 14: What is hemianopsia?
Answer:
decreased vision in half visual field, on one side of vertical midline, usually caused
by single lesion, may be caused by stroke
Question 15: What EEG can be expected with hemispheric white
matter tumor?
Answer:
continuous high amp, gen PDA from destructive lesion
Question 16: What EEG can be seen with hepatic encephalopathy?
Answer:
EEG gen slow to triphasic waves frontally predominant 1.5-3 Hz.
Question 17: What EEG patterns would you see with Herpes
Simplex Encephalitis?
Answer:
