Electrocorticography and Functional
Mapping for CLTM Board Prep 2025
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Functional mapping with direct cortical stimulation should always be done
with concurrent electrocorticography:
True or False? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
Structural functional anatomy may be altered by: (select all that apply)
a. Pressure
b. Plasticity
c. Current
d. Previous lesions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. Pressure
b. Plasticity
c. Current
,d. Previous lesions
Phase reversal SEP recordings not only identify the central sulcus but also
provide information about the distribution of motor function on the adjacent
exposed cerebral structures.
True or False? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
Dr Paul Broca, a neurosurgeon in 1861, identified the area of expressive
speech by:
a. Studying laboratory animals
b. Performing the first EP studies in humans
c. Using direct cortical stimulation in surgery
d. Following a patient with expressive aphasia and performing an autopsy
after the patient's death
e. Combining results of CT, MRI, and fMRI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Following a
patient with expressive aphasia and performing an autopsy after the
patient's death
The growing of new neuronal connections due to new learning
opportunities or brain abnormalities or when a normal functioning
hemisphere takes over functions of the abnormal side is called:
,a. Cortical dysplasia
b. Mirror focus
c. Secondary bilateral synchrony
d. Neuroplasticity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Neuroplasticity
Which occluded vessel is most likely to be associated with a stroke?
a. Right external carotid
b. Right common carotid
c. Right middle cerebral artery
d. Right posterior communicating artery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Right middle
cerebral artery
An assessment of cognitive function, reasoning, problem solving,
expressive language, long and short term memory, attention, processing
speed, visual and spacial organization, and visual motor skills is called:
a. fMRI
b. A neuropsychological evaluation
c. SPECT and PET scans
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, d. MRI and CT - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. A neuropsychological evaluation
Which of the following are part of an Epilepsy Surgery Evaluation? (select
all that apply)
-Neuropsychology
-MRI and CT
-Wada Test: Sodium Amobarbital
-Video EEG monitoring
-Epilepsy conference
-EMG and Nerve conduction studies
-MEG
-SPECT and PET scans - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Neuropsychology
-MRI and CT
-Wada Test: Sodium Amobarbital
-Video EEG monitoring
-Epilepsy conference
-MEG
Mapping for CLTM Board Prep 2025
Expert Verified | Ace the Test
Functional mapping with direct cortical stimulation should always be done
with concurrent electrocorticography:
True or False? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True
Structural functional anatomy may be altered by: (select all that apply)
a. Pressure
b. Plasticity
c. Current
d. Previous lesions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. Pressure
b. Plasticity
c. Current
,d. Previous lesions
Phase reversal SEP recordings not only identify the central sulcus but also
provide information about the distribution of motor function on the adjacent
exposed cerebral structures.
True or False? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False
Dr Paul Broca, a neurosurgeon in 1861, identified the area of expressive
speech by:
a. Studying laboratory animals
b. Performing the first EP studies in humans
c. Using direct cortical stimulation in surgery
d. Following a patient with expressive aphasia and performing an autopsy
after the patient's death
e. Combining results of CT, MRI, and fMRI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Following a
patient with expressive aphasia and performing an autopsy after the
patient's death
The growing of new neuronal connections due to new learning
opportunities or brain abnormalities or when a normal functioning
hemisphere takes over functions of the abnormal side is called:
,a. Cortical dysplasia
b. Mirror focus
c. Secondary bilateral synchrony
d. Neuroplasticity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Neuroplasticity
Which occluded vessel is most likely to be associated with a stroke?
a. Right external carotid
b. Right common carotid
c. Right middle cerebral artery
d. Right posterior communicating artery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Right middle
cerebral artery
An assessment of cognitive function, reasoning, problem solving,
expressive language, long and short term memory, attention, processing
speed, visual and spacial organization, and visual motor skills is called:
a. fMRI
b. A neuropsychological evaluation
c. SPECT and PET scans
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, d. MRI and CT - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. A neuropsychological evaluation
Which of the following are part of an Epilepsy Surgery Evaluation? (select
all that apply)
-Neuropsychology
-MRI and CT
-Wada Test: Sodium Amobarbital
-Video EEG monitoring
-Epilepsy conference
-EMG and Nerve conduction studies
-MEG
-SPECT and PET scans - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Neuropsychology
-MRI and CT
-Wada Test: Sodium Amobarbital
-Video EEG monitoring
-Epilepsy conference
-MEG
