west syndrome sz type/EEG ✔️Ans - Seizure: Jack knife, salaam
EEG: hypsarythmia
Landau-Kleffner syndrome age onset ✔️Ans - 2-12 yo
Spike duration ✔️Ans - Less than 70mSec
Sphenoidal electrodes are used to record activity from the ✔️Ans - mesialor
anterior temporal
Best medication for absence epilepsy ✔️Ans - ethosuxamide
, Dilantin (phenytoin) at toxic levels cause ____ on the EEG ✔️Ans - Significant
slowing and generalized delta activity
emotion, memory, idea association arise from which area of the brain ?
✔️Ans - Frontal lobe
Ohtahara syndrome ✔️Ans - intractible sz, evolve into west syndrome or
LGS, burst supp on EEG, poor prognosis for life
This area of the brain is superior to the sylvian fissure in the posterior frontal
lobe ✔️Ans - Broca's area
Posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus (STG) in the dominant
hemisphere ✔️Ans - Wernicke's area
Bilateral tonic posture effect these areas of the brain ✔️Ans - Frontal lobe
Supplementary motor cortex
West Syndrome medication ✔️Ans - ACTH ( human growth hormone)
Steroids
Best medication for JME (Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy) ✔️Ans - VPA
(valproate)
P7/P8 ✔️Ans - T5/T6
Chewing, salivation, speech arrest come from this area of the brain ✔️Ans -
amygdala
opercular region
simple movement (limb twitch, jacksonian march) affect these areas of the
brain ✔️Ans - Frontal lobe-contralateral
Visceral or autonomic abnormalities (epigastric, aura, salivation) come from
this area of the brain ✔️Ans - Insular-orbital frontal cortex
Visual hallucinations (formed images) come from this area of the brain
✔️Ans - Posterior temporal lobe or amygdala-hippocampus
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