EEG Board Exam Question and Answer
(2026/2027) | Updated Questions and
Correct Answers | A+ Verified
• sleep activation -✓✓ What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic
epilepsy?
• Anterior Cerebral Artery -✓✓ Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial
cortex of frontal/parietal lobes?
• CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear) -✓✓ Which nerve is affected with
neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's?
• ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone) -✓✓ What drug treats infantile spasms?
• Active Sleep -✓✓ ________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular
breathing, smile, grimace, sucking, brief apnea, decreased tonic
• Activite Moyenne -✓✓ ______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and
delta waves, 34-37 weeks
• PLED's -✓✓ What pattern would you expect after a CVA?
• frontal; contralateral -✓✓ Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a
__________ focus
,• Neck rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to
epileptic focus -✓✓ What does the body do during an adversive seizure?
• parietal -✓✓ Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe
• Aicardi -✓✓ ___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of
corpus callosum. Infantile spasms early onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/
suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia.
• EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor
theta/beta anomalies possible -✓✓ What EEG changes might you see with alcohol
withdrawal?
• voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries may
develop, less sleep signs -✓✓ What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's?
• amoxycillin -✓✓ Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to
AED's?
• Ampere -✓✓ What is the unit of current?
• olfactory; gustatory -✓✓ Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and
________ hallucinations
• generalized slowing (hypoxia) -✓✓ ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it
harder to breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
, • angiography -✓✓ _________ is x-ray with contrast media
• anterograde -✓✓ __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time
following accident
• increased theta/beta -✓✓ Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the
EEG at the therapeutic levels?
• Antipsychotic drugs -✓✓ Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol),
clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone are examples of what kind of drug?
• apraxia -✓✓ ________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though
no muscular or sensory disturbance is present
• between the third to fourth ventricle -✓✓ Where is the aqueduct of sylvius
located?
• Area 6 -✓✓ Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area?
• Area 17 -✓✓ Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms
walls of deep calcarine sulcus)?
• Area 18 and Area 19 -✓✓ Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association
areas?
(2026/2027) | Updated Questions and
Correct Answers | A+ Verified
• sleep activation -✓✓ What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic
epilepsy?
• Anterior Cerebral Artery -✓✓ Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial
cortex of frontal/parietal lobes?
• CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear) -✓✓ Which nerve is affected with
neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's?
• ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone) -✓✓ What drug treats infantile spasms?
• Active Sleep -✓✓ ________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular
breathing, smile, grimace, sucking, brief apnea, decreased tonic
• Activite Moyenne -✓✓ ______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and
delta waves, 34-37 weeks
• PLED's -✓✓ What pattern would you expect after a CVA?
• frontal; contralateral -✓✓ Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a
__________ focus
,• Neck rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to
epileptic focus -✓✓ What does the body do during an adversive seizure?
• parietal -✓✓ Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe
• Aicardi -✓✓ ___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of
corpus callosum. Infantile spasms early onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/
suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia.
• EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor
theta/beta anomalies possible -✓✓ What EEG changes might you see with alcohol
withdrawal?
• voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries may
develop, less sleep signs -✓✓ What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's?
• amoxycillin -✓✓ Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to
AED's?
• Ampere -✓✓ What is the unit of current?
• olfactory; gustatory -✓✓ Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and
________ hallucinations
• generalized slowing (hypoxia) -✓✓ ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it
harder to breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
, • angiography -✓✓ _________ is x-ray with contrast media
• anterograde -✓✓ __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time
following accident
• increased theta/beta -✓✓ Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the
EEG at the therapeutic levels?
• Antipsychotic drugs -✓✓ Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol),
clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone are examples of what kind of drug?
• apraxia -✓✓ ________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though
no muscular or sensory disturbance is present
• between the third to fourth ventricle -✓✓ Where is the aqueduct of sylvius
located?
• Area 6 -✓✓ Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area?
• Area 17 -✓✓ Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms
walls of deep calcarine sulcus)?
• Area 18 and Area 19 -✓✓ Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association
areas?
