EEG Board Exam

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 ce/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 - An