EEG BOARD FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● 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 females.absence/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.
Answer: What is the unit of current?
●● olfactory; gustatory.
Answer: Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________
hallucinations
●● generalized slowing (hypoxia).
Answer: ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to
breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
, ●● angiography.
Answer: _________ is x-ray with contrast media
●● anterograde.
Answer: __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time
following accident
●● increased theta/beta.
Answer: Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at
the therapeutic levels?
●● Antipsychotic drugs.
Answer: Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine
(clozaril), and risperidone are examples of what kind of drug?
●● apraxia.
Answer: ________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement
though no muscular or sensory disturbance is present
●● between the third to fourth ventricle.
Answer: Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located?
●● Area 6.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+ COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● 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 females.absence/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.
Answer: What is the unit of current?
●● olfactory; gustatory.
Answer: Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________
hallucinations
●● generalized slowing (hypoxia).
Answer: ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to
breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
, ●● angiography.
Answer: _________ is x-ray with contrast media
●● anterograde.
Answer: __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time
following accident
●● increased theta/beta.
Answer: Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at
the therapeutic levels?
●● Antipsychotic drugs.
Answer: Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine
(clozaril), and risperidone are examples of what kind of drug?
●● apraxia.
Answer: ________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement
though no muscular or sensory disturbance is present
●● between the third to fourth ventricle.
Answer: Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located?
●● Area 6.
