EEG BOARD PREP PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What stage of sleep will you find vertex waves? correct answer: N1 What stage of sleep will you see sleep spindles? correct answer: N2 What stage of sleep will you see POSTS? correct answer: N1 What would an EEG look like of someone who has down syndrome? correct answer: Normal If a patient is becoming "deeper" in a coma, triphasic waves are most likely to do what? correct answer: Disappear What normal activity can be seen in C3/C4? correct answer: Mu What is seen most often in children? correct answer: Rolandic spikes What region do you see Rolandic spikes? correct answer: central At which conceptal age do you begin to see delta brushes? correct answer: 32-34 weeks electrocebral inactivity is defined as no EEG activity over what? correct answer: 2 microvolts Immediately following an absence seizure the EEG will be? correct answer: normal beta coma most commonly results from what? correct answer: drug overdose a skull defect will result in what EEG pattern? correct answer: breech rhythm What feature is most diagnostic of psychogenic PNES? correct answer: no disruption of the PDR an electrographic seizure is characterized by what activity? correct answer: episodic rhymes activity What is most useful when determining localization and polarity? correct answer: montage what normal variant has positive polarity? correct answer: lambda according to guidelines what is the bandwidth for routine EEGs? correct answer: 1-70 hz how many millimeters are in one centimeter? correct answer: 10 mm what is unilateral spikes considered ? correct answer: foca