EEG Board Prep
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- Metabolic disorder
- Which of the following is the most appropriate for determining cerebral dominance?
- Which progression is considered rare?
- In the EEG laboratory, the major concern for transmission of infection is through:
- Balanced impedances allow you to:
- Extremely low voltage due to phase cancellation may be caused by
- Patient’s with Rett’s syndrome usually develop normally until age what?
- Papilledema is most common in which of the following conditions?
- What is the difference between a classic migraine headache and a common migraine headache?
- PLEDS
- All of the following statements regarding the evolution of photic driving response are true except
- Which of the following features is characteristic of syncope?
- Which of the following statements best describes the evolution of vertex waves and K-complexes?
- All of the following statements about shut-eye waves are true except
- normal arousal from sleep can be associated with all of the following except
- What is the main difference between active sleep (AS) and quiet sleep (QS) around 37-40 weeks of conceptual age
- Which of the following changes seen during hyperventilation is considered abnormal
- Which of the following features is seen in primary generalized epileptic myoclonus
- Subclinical rhythmic electrographic discharge in adults (SREDA) has all of the following characteristics except
- a 6-year-old girl has multiple seizures that involve facial contraction. Her EEG showed centrotemporal spikes. Which part of the EEG is likely to demonstrate accentuation of these abnormalities
- Which of the following EEG findings is seen in Angelman syndrome
- EEG in a patient with progressively deepening coma can show
- Absence seizures are characterized by all of the following features except
- The EEG frequency bands described by Hans Berger include
- Which of the following statements best characterizes the psychomotor variant
- Which of the following statements best describes the normal evolution of the frequency of the posterior dominant rhythm (PDR)
- A 12-year-old boy with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) presents with tonic and atonic seizures. An ambulatory EEG was done to assess the frequency of the seizures. When the electroencephalographer reviewed the study, the video did not appear to record properly. Which of the following features helps to distinguish between the 2 seizure types
- Age-related EEG slowing in the elderly is characterized by
- An 11 year-old boy with learning disability had a single nocturnal seizure associated with subtle facial twitching and hypersalivation. What abnormality would you expect to see
- Physiologic hyperventilation (HV)-induced EEG slowing is characterized by all of the following except
- What EEG pattern is expected in neonates starting at 29 weeks of conceptual age
- Which of the following features is seen around 35-37 weeks of conceptual age
- A 13 year-old boy had a seizure in the setting of playing a video game. When the neurophysiologist was reading the EEG, she saw that there were EEG changes during photic stimulation. All of the following statements correctly describe the possible changes that can be seen during photic stimulation except
- Which of the following statements is true regarding interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDS)
- Which of the following syndromes is considered to have a more favorable prognosis
- What is the chance that the first routine EEG will be nondiagnostic for epilepsy
- Generalized, 4-6 Hz polyspike-and-wave discharges during photic stimulation are diagnostic of
- All of the following statements regarding frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity (FIRDA) are true except
- Which of the following EEG findings is characteristic of Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS)
- Which of the following statements is true about the alpha rhythm
- EEG abnormalities in patients with brain tumors can consist of all of the following except
- All of the following conditions are correctly matched with EEG findings except
- What is the earliest conceptual age at which active sleep (AS) and quiet sleep (QS) can be distinguished from one another
- All of the following characteristics are true about 14-and 6 Hz positive bursts except
- Around 32-24 weeks of conceptual age, the background during active sleep (AS) and quiet sleep (QS) tends to be
- During a routine EEG, the technologist asks the patient to spell the word "gladiolus" (the first National Spelling Bee winning word in 1925). Which of the following EEG activities can be expected to appear or enhance.
- A 12 year-old boy presents with Reye's syndrome. Which of the following EEG findings has been associated with the syndrome
- a 36 week-old infant was noted to have right temporal sharply contoured activity. What normal finding could this represent
- All of the following statements regarding the development of REM sleep during the first year of life are true except
- All of the following regarding Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) are true except
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