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safest AED for pregnancy - ✔✔Lamictal
bolus of propfol - ✔✔burst suppression
mediation to treat SE - ✔✔Lorazepam
VNS - ✔✔partial seizure
RNS neurostimulator - ✔✔-placed under the scalp
-used as an adjunctive therapy in adults only
-delivers stim when specific patterns are detected
MEG useful for - ✔✔cortical dysplasia
gliomas
tuberous slcerosis
length of suspension of brain activity in WADA - ✔✔4-8 minutes
effect of WADA on brain activity - ✔✔transient contralateral paralysis
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,ipsilateral hemispheric dysfunction
what diagnostic test is resulting in fewer WADA tests - ✔✔fMRI
Panayiotopoulos syndrome - ✔✔Occipital Epilepsy with tonic eye deviation, ictal
vomiting, visual seizures
good prognosis
conceptual age delta brushes appear - ✔✔30 weeks
neonatal EEG pattern is evaluated based on - ✔✔post-menstrual age (PMA)
surgical treatment for hypothalamic hamartomas - ✔✔Gamma Knife
atypical absence - ✔✔myoclonic jerks, automatisms with the staring spell
atypical absence common with - ✔✔LGS
treatment for patients with epileptic zones arising from or overlapping with eloquent
cortex - ✔✔multiple subpial transection
post-ictal impairment of function with a discrete region - ✔✔Todd's paralysis
most frequently involved vessel in CVA - ✔✔ICA
treatment for Sturge-Weber - ✔✔hemispherectomy
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, max leakage current when recording from patients with invasive monitoring electrodes
- ✔✔10 microamp
basal extracranial electrodes for recording mesial temporal or frontal discharges are
placed where - ✔✔near foramen ovale
sphenoidal electrodes monitor activity from - ✔✔anterior temporal area
subzone of epileptogenic zone that is the gold standard for localization - ✔✔ictal zone
thrombosis of ACA results in - ✔✔contralateral lower extremity weakness
physiologic substrate of clinical seizure activity - ✔✔abnormal neuronal discharge
cross communication between blood vessels - ✔✔anastomosis
time base for sensory-motor localization - ✔✔50msec
depth electrodes are best for monitoring what area - ✔✔hippocampal area
cortical potentials for median nerve SSEP are recorded from - ✔✔ipsilateral parietal
lobe
cortical responses over the primary somatosensory cortex to median nerve SSEPs -
✔✔negative nearfield
lateralizing sign that occurs contralateral to sz onset - ✔✔extended arm used in "sign of
4" posture
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