EEG Board Exam 2026 Exam Questions
and Answers | A+ Score Assured
What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal
lobes? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear)
,What drug treats infantile spasms? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ACTH
(Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile,
grimace, sucking, brief apnea, decreased tonic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Active
Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37
weeks - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔PLED's
Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔frontal; contralateral
What does the body do during an adversive seizure? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Neck
rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic
focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔parietal
,___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of corpus
callosum. Infantile spasms early onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/
suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor
theta/beta anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries
may develop, less sleep signs
Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to AED's? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔amoxycillin
What is the unit of current? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________
hallucinations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔olfactory; gustatory
ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the
EEG then has ______ ________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔generalized slowing
(hypoxia)
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, _________ is x-ray with contrast media - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔angiography
__________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following
accident - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the
therapeutic levels? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and
risperidone are examples of what kind of drug? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no
muscular or sensory disturbance is present - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔between the
third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of
deep calcarine sulcus)? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Area 18 and Area 19
and Answers | A+ Score Assured
What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal
lobes? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear)
,What drug treats infantile spasms? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ACTH
(Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile,
grimace, sucking, brief apnea, decreased tonic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Active
Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37
weeks - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔PLED's
Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔frontal; contralateral
What does the body do during an adversive seizure? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Neck
rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic
focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔parietal
,___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of corpus
callosum. Infantile spasms early onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/
suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor
theta/beta anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries
may develop, less sleep signs
Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to AED's? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔amoxycillin
What is the unit of current? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________
hallucinations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔olfactory; gustatory
ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the
EEG then has ______ ________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔generalized slowing
(hypoxia)
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, _________ is x-ray with contrast media - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔angiography
__________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following
accident - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the
therapeutic levels? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and
risperidone are examples of what kind of drug? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no
muscular or sensory disturbance is present - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔between the
third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of
deep calcarine sulcus)? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Area 18 and Area 19
