EEG board prep ASAP test prep Questions With 100%Verified Answers A+GRADED
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EEG board prep ASAP test prep Questions With 100%Verified Answers A+GRADED
Patient's with Rett's syndrome usually develop normally until age what?
a. 18-24 months
b. 3-6 months
c. 6-18 months
d. 2-4 years - correct answer...c. 6-18 months
Which of the following is most likely to be associ...
EEG board prep ASAP test prep
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Patient's with Rett's syndrome usually develop normally until age what?
a. 18-24 months
b. 3-6 months
c. 6-18 months
d. 2-4 years - correct answer...✔✔c. 6-18 months
Which of the following is most likely to be associated with a normal EEG?
a. left frontal subdural hematoma
b. left frontal abscess
c. acoustic neuroma
d. cerebellar abscess - correct answer...✔✔d. cerebellar abscess
During an absence seizure the technologist should?
a. stop recording and go to the patient's aid
b. turn the patients head to the left
c. test the patients level of consciousness
d. insert a tongue blade in the patients mouth - correct answer...✔✔c. test the level of
patients consciousness
Hypsarrhythmia is a pattern most often associated with :
a. Absence seizures
b. Atonic seizures
c. Infantile spasms
d. Gelastic seizures - correct answer...✔✔c. Infantile spasms
Damage to wernicke's area may result in:
a. Receptive aphasia
b. Anoxia
c. ataxia
d. Expressive aphasia - correct answer...✔✔a. receptive aphasia
A spike or sharp wave results from?
a. asynchronous activation of neurons
b. depolarization of neurons
c. repolarization of neurons
d. synchronous activation of multiple neurons. - correct answer...✔✔d. synchronous
activation of multiple neurons
Papilledema is most common in which of the following conditions?
AGRADESOLUTIONS
,a. huntington chorea
b. posterior fossa tumor
c. temporal lobe seizures
d. sturge-weber syndrome - correct answer...✔✔b. posterior fossa tumor
Used to localize site of seizure onset by looking for area of hyperperfusion;
a. ct
b. interictal pet
c. ictal spect
d. MRI - correct answer...✔✔c. ictal spect
Collateral perfusion is maintained by? - correct answer...✔✔circle of willis
The neurological examination is most likely to be abnormal in patients with:
a. absence seizures
b. juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
c. lennox-gastaut syndrome
d. rolandic epilepsy - correct answer...✔✔c. lennox gastaut syndrome
If a patient has a circumference measurement of 55cm, which of the following
interelectrode distances can be calculated?
a. c3 to cz
b. o1 to o2
c. fz to oz
d. f7 to fz - correct answer...✔✔b. o1 to o2
The neurotransmitter that is lacking in the brain of patients with parkinson's disease is? -
correct answer...✔✔dopamine
which of the following separates the motor cortex from the sensory cortex? - correct
answer...✔✔Rolandic fissure
The onset of sturge-weber disease is typically during?
a. adolescence
b. adulthood
c. elderly
d. infancy - correct answer...✔✔d. infancy
consciousness
a. striate cortex
b. reticular formation
c. cerebellum
d. basal ganglia - correct answer...✔✔b. reticular formation
which is not a risk factor for JME?
AGRADESOLUTIONS
,a. absence seizure
b. patients ages 14-15
c. sleep deprivation
d. patients ages 3-4 - correct answer...✔✔d. patients ages 3-4
If the nasion to inion measurement is 40cm, what is the distance between cz to pz? -
correct answer...✔✔8cm
PLEDS are most likely to be seen in patients presenting with:
a. acute drug toxicity
b. hypoglycemia
c. cerebral embolus
d. liver failure - correct answer...✔✔a. acute drug toxicity
short interelectrode distance between electrodes will cause which of the following
changes to the EEG waveform?
a. increase frequency
b. decrease in frequency
c. decrease amplitude
d. increase amplitude - correct answer...✔✔c. decrease amplitude
Ictal;
a. after
b. in between
c. during
d. before - correct answer...✔✔c. during
If the distance from the right preauricular to the right outer canthus measures 9cm,
where should electrode t2 be placed?
a. 1cm out from the right outer canthus and 1cm down
b. 3cm out from the right preauricular point and 1 cm up
c. 1cm out from the right preauricular point and 1 cm down
d. 3 cm out form the right outer canthus and 1cm up - correct answer...✔✔d. 3cm out
from the right outer canthus and 1cm up
when a large amount of electrode paste is used to hold EEG electrodes in place, the
total recording area will be the?
a. diameter of the EEG electrode
b. inner surface area of the EEG electrode
c. inner plus outer surface area of the EEG electrode
d. total scalp surface area of the paste - correct answer...✔✔d. total scalp area of the
paste
Impedance can best be described as the
a. current produced by a wire coil in a magnetic field.
b. resistance to alternating current
AGRADESOLUTIONS
, c. ability to store an electrical charge
d. resistance to direct current - correct answer...✔✔b. resistance to alternating current
Creutzfeld-jakob disease
a. multifocal sharp waves
b. periodic sharp waves
c. polyspike complexes
d. spike and wave complex - correct answer...✔✔b. periodic sharp waves
Bell's palsy is characterized by - correct answer...✔✔paralysis of facial muscles
EEG activity is thought to arise from which of the following?
a. axonal action potentials
b. cortical layers 1 and 2
c. horizontal dipoles
d. excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials - correct answer...✔✔d. epsps and
IPSps
when is it permissible to release patient information to a third party?
a. when requested by another physician
b. when a patient provides verbal consent
c. when it is in the best interest of the patient
d. when the patient provides written consent - correct answer...✔✔d. when patient
provides written consent
a business associate agreement is required when:
a. medical records are handled in the department
b. medical records are shared
c. staff work for more than one healthcare entity
d. a new staff member is hired - correct answer...✔✔b.medicalrecords
Used in treatment for only generalized seizures, commonly in absence epilepsy
treatment;
a. Ethosuximide
b. Phenobarbital
c. Dilantin
d. ACTH - correct answer...✔✔a. ethosuximide
The acronym used to describe distinctive EEG waves or complexes that occur between
seizures and are distinguished from the backround activity;
a. NCSE (non conclusive status epilepticus)
b. FIRDA ( frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity)
c. GPEDS (generalized periodic epileptiform discharges)
d. IEDs ( interictal epileptiform discharges) - correct answer...✔✔IED's interictal
epileptiform discharges (d.)
AGRADESOLUTIONS
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