ABRET PRACTICE EXAM PART 1
2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM
WITH ANSWERS.
1. A disease that presents with an acoustic startle response within
the first few months of life: -correct answer -Tay Sachs disease
2. The atrophy associated with Huntington\'s disease involves the
-correct answer -basal ganglia
3. A patient with a right hemiparesis most likely has a lesion of the
left -correct answer -frontal lobe
4. The occipital lobe receives its blood supply directly from which
artery? -correct answer -Posterior cerebral
5. Where do most brain tumors occur in children? -correct answer
-Posterior fossa
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6. Patients with which of the following diseases would most likely
have a normal tracing? -correct answer -Multiple sclerosis
7. Changes in personality are most likely associated with tumors
of the: -correct answer -frontal lobe
8. With rapidly increasing dosage, which of the following
medications will have the most sedative effect on the patient? -
correct answer -Barbiturates
9. EEG is most useful in -correct answer -encephalopathy
10. GELASTIC EPILEPSY is associated with -correct answer -
Laughing
11. In children, most intracranial tumors are found in -correct
answer -posterior fossa
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12. The neurological examination is most likely to be abnormal
in patients with: -correct answer -Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
13. Prion diseases are: -correct answer -Fatal
14. PROXIMAL -correct answer -Near to
15. Damage to Wernicke's area may result in: -correct answer -
Receptive aphasia
16. A stat EEG has been ordered on a woman who experienced
a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. She is confused. While the
technologist is running a baseline, a man enters claiming to be
her husband. If he asks about the record, the technologist
should -correct answer -ask the man to wait for a physician to
speak to him
17. A spike or sharp wave results from -correct answer -
synchronous activation of multiple neurons