EEG Board Exam Questions and
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What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures? - ✔✔Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy? - ✔✔sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal lobes? -
✔✔Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's? - ✔✔CN VIII
(Vestibulocochlear)
What drug treats infantile spasms? - ✔✔ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile, grimace, sucking,
brief apnea, decreased tonic - ✔✔Active Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37 weeks -
✔✔Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA? - ✔✔PLED's
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,Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus - ✔✔frontal;
contralateral
What does the body do during an adversive seizure? - ✔✔Neck rotation and conjugate
gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal? - ✔✔EEG normal 90% time,
with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor theta/beta anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's? - ✔✔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? -
✔✔amoxycillin
What is the unit of current? - ✔✔Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________ hallucinations -
✔✔olfactory; gustatory
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, ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the EEG then has
______ ________ - ✔✔generalized slowing (hypoxia)
_________ is x-ray with contrast media - ✔✔angiography
__________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following accident -
✔✔anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the therapeutic levels? -
✔✔increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone
are examples of what kind of drug? - ✔✔Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no muscular or
sensory disturbance is present - ✔✔apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located? - ✔✔between the third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area? - ✔✔Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of deep calcarine
sulcus)? - ✔✔Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas? - ✔✔Area 18 and Area 19
Which Brodmann's area is the primary auditory area? - ✔✔Area 41
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What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures? - ✔✔Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy? - ✔✔sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal lobes? -
✔✔Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's? - ✔✔CN VIII
(Vestibulocochlear)
What drug treats infantile spasms? - ✔✔ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile, grimace, sucking,
brief apnea, decreased tonic - ✔✔Active Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37 weeks -
✔✔Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA? - ✔✔PLED's
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,Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus - ✔✔frontal;
contralateral
What does the body do during an adversive seizure? - ✔✔Neck rotation and conjugate
gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal? - ✔✔EEG normal 90% time,
with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor theta/beta anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's? - ✔✔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? -
✔✔amoxycillin
What is the unit of current? - ✔✔Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________ hallucinations -
✔✔olfactory; gustatory
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, ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the EEG then has
______ ________ - ✔✔generalized slowing (hypoxia)
_________ is x-ray with contrast media - ✔✔angiography
__________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following accident -
✔✔anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the therapeutic levels? -
✔✔increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone
are examples of what kind of drug? - ✔✔Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no muscular or
sensory disturbance is present - ✔✔apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located? - ✔✔between the third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area? - ✔✔Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of deep calcarine
sulcus)? - ✔✔Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas? - ✔✔Area 18 and Area 19
Which Brodmann's area is the primary auditory area? - ✔✔Area 41
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