EEG BOARD PREP PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What stage of sleep will you find vertex waves? - ANS -N1
What stage of sleep will you see sleep spindles? - ANS -N2
What stage of sleep will you see POSTS? - ANS -N1
What would an EEG look like of someone who has down syndrome? -
ANS -Normal
If a patient is becoming "deeper" in a coma, triphasic waves are most likely to
do what? - ANS -Disappear
What normal activity can be seen in C3/C4? - ANS -Mu
What is seen most often in children? - ANS -Rolandic spikes
What region do you see Rolandic spikes? - ANS -central
At which conceptal age do you begin to see delta brushes? - ANS -32-34
weeks
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, electrocebral inactivity is defined as no EEG activity over what? - ANS -2
microvolts
Immediately following an absence seizure the EEG will be? - ANS -
normal
beta coma most commonly results from what? - ANS -drug overdose
a skull defect will result in what EEG pattern? - ANS -breech rhythm
What feature is most diagnostic of psychogenic PNES? - ANS -no
disruption of the PDR
an electrographic seizure is characterized by what activity? - ANS -
episodic rhymes activity
What is most useful when determining localization and polarity? - ANS -
montage
what normal variant has positive polarity? - ANS -lambda
according to guidelines what is the bandwidth for routine EEGs? - ANS -
1-70 hz
2
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VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What stage of sleep will you find vertex waves? - ANS -N1
What stage of sleep will you see sleep spindles? - ANS -N2
What stage of sleep will you see POSTS? - ANS -N1
What would an EEG look like of someone who has down syndrome? -
ANS -Normal
If a patient is becoming "deeper" in a coma, triphasic waves are most likely to
do what? - ANS -Disappear
What normal activity can be seen in C3/C4? - ANS -Mu
What is seen most often in children? - ANS -Rolandic spikes
What region do you see Rolandic spikes? - ANS -central
At which conceptal age do you begin to see delta brushes? - ANS -32-34
weeks
1
Page
, electrocebral inactivity is defined as no EEG activity over what? - ANS -2
microvolts
Immediately following an absence seizure the EEG will be? - ANS -
normal
beta coma most commonly results from what? - ANS -drug overdose
a skull defect will result in what EEG pattern? - ANS -breech rhythm
What feature is most diagnostic of psychogenic PNES? - ANS -no
disruption of the PDR
an electrographic seizure is characterized by what activity? - ANS -
episodic rhymes activity
What is most useful when determining localization and polarity? - ANS -
montage
what normal variant has positive polarity? - ANS -lambda
according to guidelines what is the bandwidth for routine EEGs? - ANS -
1-70 hz
2
Page
