EEG BOARD SURE EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Atypical photic response
a. harmonic driving
b. photomyogenic
c. photic driving
d. delta driving - ✔✔d. delta driving
✔✔Photic driving is most common at what frequencies?
a. 1-4 hz
b. 16-20 hz
c. 25-30 hz
d. 9-13 hz - ✔✔d. 9-13 hz
✔✔Which of these is a contraindication for the activation procedure HV?
a. photosensitivity
b. multiple sclerosis
c. tuberous slcerosis
d. sickle cell anemia - ✔✔d. sickle cell anemia
✔✔What type of response to photic stim is characterized by generalized spike and
wave discharges continuing after the flash
a. photomyogenic
b. photoelectric
c. photoparoxysmal
d. photic recruiting - ✔✔c. photoparoxysmal
✔✔Photic stim is most effective in evoking epileptiform abnormalities in patients with?
a. focal occipital seizures
b. metabolic coma
c. syncope
,d. a family history of seizures - ✔✔d. a family history of seizures
✔✔Which of the following is most useful in the evaluation of temporal lobe seizures;
a. HV
b. sleep eeg
c. awake eeg
d. photic stim - ✔✔b. sleep eeg
✔✔What is the first thing that should be done when trying to eliminate 60hz artifact:
a. hide channels with artifact
b. turn notch filters
c. attempting to eliminate the technical issues
d. change the hff setting - ✔✔c. attempting to eliminate technical issues
✔✔Sweat artifact is severely obscuring the EEG. What is the first step the tech should
take to eliminate the artifact?
a. turn the lff to 5hz
b. cool pt down by removing blanket and fanning pt
c. place a rolled up towel under the head
d. turn the sens down - ✔✔b. cool pt down by removing blanket and fanning pt
✔✔Glossokinetic Artifact - ✔✔Tongue movement
✔✔Glossokinetic Artifact - ✔✔biological
✔✔Regarding eye movement artifact which of the following is true?
a. with lateral conjugate eye movements the negativity is seen in the direction of the eye
movement
b. the eyeball acts as a dipole, with a neg pole anteriorly near the cornea, and a relative
postivity posteriorly near retina
c. vertical eye movements are seen max at FP1 and FP2, while horizontal eye
movements are recorded best at F7 and F8
d. Placements of infra orbital eye leads is of little or no clinical utility in differentiating
eye movements from corticla activity. - ✔✔c. vertical eye movements are seen max at
FP1 and Fp2 and horizontal eye movements are recorded best at F7 and F8
✔✔What is the name of artifact that appears as a prominent R wave with positivity over
the left posterior quadrant of the head and can resemble a spike?
a. lateral eye movement
b. ECG artifact
c. respiration artifact
d. chewing artifact - ✔✔b. ecg artifact
✔✔Sweat artifact
,a. eliminated with HFF 15 hz
b. associated with EKG
c. slow deflection
d. spike - ✔✔c. slow deflection
✔✔An EEG shows eye blink and muscle artifact. what is the likely state of the pt.
a. REM
b. awake
c. drowsy
d. stage 1 - ✔✔b. awake
✔✔Artifact that is caused by movement of people near the pts - ✔✔electrostatic
✔✔IF 60hz artifact is present in two channels of an eeg tracing, the first step in
troubleshooting should be
a. switch to another power outlet
b. turn on 60hz filter
c. check electrode impedance
d. change hf filter to 15 hz - ✔✔c. check electrode imp
✔✔What should be the first reaction to 60 hz artifact in one electrode
a. turn on 60hz filter
b. check electrode imp
c. utilize the HF
d. change the montage - ✔✔b. check electrode imp
✔✔60hz filter
a. low filter
b. rapid roll off filter
c. notch filter
d. muscle filter - ✔✔c. notch filter
✔✔NON physiologic artifact
a. electrode
b. eog
c. emg
d. glossokinetic - ✔✔a. electrode
✔✔While recording using a bipolar montage, you notice that the channel C4-P4 is
unusually flat compared to the other channels. what is a possible cause?
a. the electrodes require more paste
b. the electrodes are too far apart
c. the electrodes art too close together
d. the impedances were too high - ✔✔c. the electrodes are too close together
, ✔✔broken lead wire during recording;
a. can be corrected using a software patch
b. not important, since the system ref can still be used as input two
c. can cause a dangerous leakage current
d. requires rep - ✔✔d. requires replacement
✔✔If a pt starts to have a seizure during photic stim the tech should
a. decrease stim rate
b. turn off eeg instrument
c. increase sensitivity
d. turn off photic stim - ✔✔d. turn off photic stim
✔✔a pt has generalized tonic-clonic seizure during an EEG recording. IF one electrode
is pulled off, which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EEG tech.
a. fix the electrode and tehn atten to the pt
b. protect the pt from injury and keep EEG running
c. sto[p the recording and fix the electrode
d. stop the recording and protect the pt. - ✔✔b.
✔✔At what age range is hypnagogic hypersynchrony most prominent?
a. 65-80yrs old
b. 0-12 months
c. 2-6yrs
d. 1-2yrs. - ✔✔c. 2-6yrs
✔✔Small sharp spikes
a. rem sleep
b. awake
c. stage 1-11 sleep
d. drowsy - ✔✔c. stage 1-11 sleep
✔✔vertex waves
a. temporal
b. frontal
c. central
d. occipital - ✔✔c. central
✔✔sleep spindles may be more irregular or of lower voltage in;
a. teenagers
b. stage 11 sleep
c. elderly patients
d. females - ✔✔c. elderly pts
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Atypical photic response
a. harmonic driving
b. photomyogenic
c. photic driving
d. delta driving - ✔✔d. delta driving
✔✔Photic driving is most common at what frequencies?
a. 1-4 hz
b. 16-20 hz
c. 25-30 hz
d. 9-13 hz - ✔✔d. 9-13 hz
✔✔Which of these is a contraindication for the activation procedure HV?
a. photosensitivity
b. multiple sclerosis
c. tuberous slcerosis
d. sickle cell anemia - ✔✔d. sickle cell anemia
✔✔What type of response to photic stim is characterized by generalized spike and
wave discharges continuing after the flash
a. photomyogenic
b. photoelectric
c. photoparoxysmal
d. photic recruiting - ✔✔c. photoparoxysmal
✔✔Photic stim is most effective in evoking epileptiform abnormalities in patients with?
a. focal occipital seizures
b. metabolic coma
c. syncope
,d. a family history of seizures - ✔✔d. a family history of seizures
✔✔Which of the following is most useful in the evaluation of temporal lobe seizures;
a. HV
b. sleep eeg
c. awake eeg
d. photic stim - ✔✔b. sleep eeg
✔✔What is the first thing that should be done when trying to eliminate 60hz artifact:
a. hide channels with artifact
b. turn notch filters
c. attempting to eliminate the technical issues
d. change the hff setting - ✔✔c. attempting to eliminate technical issues
✔✔Sweat artifact is severely obscuring the EEG. What is the first step the tech should
take to eliminate the artifact?
a. turn the lff to 5hz
b. cool pt down by removing blanket and fanning pt
c. place a rolled up towel under the head
d. turn the sens down - ✔✔b. cool pt down by removing blanket and fanning pt
✔✔Glossokinetic Artifact - ✔✔Tongue movement
✔✔Glossokinetic Artifact - ✔✔biological
✔✔Regarding eye movement artifact which of the following is true?
a. with lateral conjugate eye movements the negativity is seen in the direction of the eye
movement
b. the eyeball acts as a dipole, with a neg pole anteriorly near the cornea, and a relative
postivity posteriorly near retina
c. vertical eye movements are seen max at FP1 and FP2, while horizontal eye
movements are recorded best at F7 and F8
d. Placements of infra orbital eye leads is of little or no clinical utility in differentiating
eye movements from corticla activity. - ✔✔c. vertical eye movements are seen max at
FP1 and Fp2 and horizontal eye movements are recorded best at F7 and F8
✔✔What is the name of artifact that appears as a prominent R wave with positivity over
the left posterior quadrant of the head and can resemble a spike?
a. lateral eye movement
b. ECG artifact
c. respiration artifact
d. chewing artifact - ✔✔b. ecg artifact
✔✔Sweat artifact
,a. eliminated with HFF 15 hz
b. associated with EKG
c. slow deflection
d. spike - ✔✔c. slow deflection
✔✔An EEG shows eye blink and muscle artifact. what is the likely state of the pt.
a. REM
b. awake
c. drowsy
d. stage 1 - ✔✔b. awake
✔✔Artifact that is caused by movement of people near the pts - ✔✔electrostatic
✔✔IF 60hz artifact is present in two channels of an eeg tracing, the first step in
troubleshooting should be
a. switch to another power outlet
b. turn on 60hz filter
c. check electrode impedance
d. change hf filter to 15 hz - ✔✔c. check electrode imp
✔✔What should be the first reaction to 60 hz artifact in one electrode
a. turn on 60hz filter
b. check electrode imp
c. utilize the HF
d. change the montage - ✔✔b. check electrode imp
✔✔60hz filter
a. low filter
b. rapid roll off filter
c. notch filter
d. muscle filter - ✔✔c. notch filter
✔✔NON physiologic artifact
a. electrode
b. eog
c. emg
d. glossokinetic - ✔✔a. electrode
✔✔While recording using a bipolar montage, you notice that the channel C4-P4 is
unusually flat compared to the other channels. what is a possible cause?
a. the electrodes require more paste
b. the electrodes are too far apart
c. the electrodes art too close together
d. the impedances were too high - ✔✔c. the electrodes are too close together
, ✔✔broken lead wire during recording;
a. can be corrected using a software patch
b. not important, since the system ref can still be used as input two
c. can cause a dangerous leakage current
d. requires rep - ✔✔d. requires replacement
✔✔If a pt starts to have a seizure during photic stim the tech should
a. decrease stim rate
b. turn off eeg instrument
c. increase sensitivity
d. turn off photic stim - ✔✔d. turn off photic stim
✔✔a pt has generalized tonic-clonic seizure during an EEG recording. IF one electrode
is pulled off, which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EEG tech.
a. fix the electrode and tehn atten to the pt
b. protect the pt from injury and keep EEG running
c. sto[p the recording and fix the electrode
d. stop the recording and protect the pt. - ✔✔b.
✔✔At what age range is hypnagogic hypersynchrony most prominent?
a. 65-80yrs old
b. 0-12 months
c. 2-6yrs
d. 1-2yrs. - ✔✔c. 2-6yrs
✔✔Small sharp spikes
a. rem sleep
b. awake
c. stage 1-11 sleep
d. drowsy - ✔✔c. stage 1-11 sleep
✔✔vertex waves
a. temporal
b. frontal
c. central
d. occipital - ✔✔c. central
✔✔sleep spindles may be more irregular or of lower voltage in;
a. teenagers
b. stage 11 sleep
c. elderly patients
d. females - ✔✔c. elderly pts
