EEG BOARD PREP PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

What stage of sleep will you find vertex waves? CORREC ANSWER N1 What stage of sleep will you see sleep spindles? CORREC ANSWER N2 What stage of sleep will you see POSTS? CORREC ANSWER N1 What would an EEG look like of someone who has down syndrome? CORREC ANSWER Normal If a patient is becoming "deeper" in a coma, triphasic waves are most likely to do what? CORREC ANSWER Disappear What normal activity can be seen in C3/C4? CORREC ANSWER Mu What is seen most often in children? CORREC ANSWER Rolandic spikes What region do you see Rolandic spikes? CORREC ANSWER central At which conceptual age do you begin to see delta brushes? CORREC ANSWER 32-34 weeks electrocebral inactivity is defined as no EEG activity over what? CORREC ANSWER 2 microvolts Immediately following an absence seizure the EEG will be? CORREC ANSWER normal beta coma most commonly results from what? CORREC ANSWER drug overdose a skull defect will result in what EEG pattern? CORREC ANSWER breech rhythm What feature is most diagnostic of psychogenic PNES? CORREC ANSWER no disruption of the PDR an electrographic seizure is characterized by what activity? CORREC ANSWER episodic rhymes activity What is most useful when determining localization and polarity? CORREC ANSWER montage what normal variant has positive polarity? CORREC ANSWER lambda