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