EEG Board Exam questions and answers 2026\2027 A+
Grade
What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures?
- correct answer Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy?
- correct answer sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal lobes?
- correct answer Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's?
- correct answer CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear)
What drug treats infantile spasms?
- correct answer ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile, grimace, sucking, brief apnea,
decreased tonic
- correct answer Active Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37 weeks
- correct answer Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA?
- correct answer PLED's
Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus
- correct answer frontal; contralateral
,What does the body do during an adversive seizure?
- correct answer Neck rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe
- correct answer parietal
___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of corpus callosum. Infantile spasms early
onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/ suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia.
- correct answer Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal?
- correct answer EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor theta/beta
anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's?
- correct answer voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries may develop,
less sleep signs
Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to AED's?
- correct answer amoxycillin
What is the unit of current?
- correct answer Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________ hallucinations
- correct answer olfactory; gustatory
ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
- correct answer generalized slowing (hypoxia)
_________ is x-ray with contrast media
- correct answer angiography
, __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following accident
- correct answer anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the therapeutic levels?
- correct answer increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone are examples of
what kind of drug?
- correct answer Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no muscular or sensory disturbance is
present
- correct answer apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located?
- correct answer between the third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area?
- correct answer Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of deep calcarine sulcus)?
- correct answer Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas?
- correct answer Area 18 and Area 19
Which Brodmann's area is the primary auditory area?
- correct answer Area 41
__________ is a congenital anomaly when the hindbrain is displaced through the foramen magnum.
- correct answer Arnold-Chiari
Grade
What activation is useful for detecting absence seizures?
- correct answer Hyperventilation
What activation is useful for detecting benign rolandic epilepsy?
- correct answer sleep activation
Which artery supplies the frontal pole and mesial cortex of frontal/parietal lobes?
- correct answer Anterior Cerebral Artery
Which nerve is affected with neurofibromatosis/Von Recklinhausen's?
- correct answer CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear)
What drug treats infantile spasms?
- correct answer ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
________ _________ in infants shows REM, irregular breathing, smile, grimace, sucking, brief apnea,
decreased tonic
- correct answer Active Sleep
______ _________ is low voltage irregular theta and delta waves, 34-37 weeks
- correct answer Activite Moyenne
What pattern would you expect after a CVA?
- correct answer PLED's
Adversive seizures are from the ________ lobe with a __________ focus
- correct answer frontal; contralateral
,What does the body do during an adversive seizure?
- correct answer Neck rotation and conjugate gaze deviation in direction contralateral to epileptic focus
Agraphia occurs from damage to the dominant __________ lobe
- correct answer parietal
___________ syndrome occurs in females.absence/agenesis of corpus callosum. Infantile spasms early
onset. Often asymmetric, diffuse EEG w/ suppression bursts and/or atypical hypsarrhythmia.
- correct answer Aicardi
What EEG changes might you see with alcohol withdrawal?
- correct answer EEG normal 90% time, with increased photomyoclonic reactivity. Minor theta/beta
anomalies possible
What EEG changes would you see w/ Alzheimer's?
- correct answer voltage/alpha diminish, theta then delta intrude w/ sharps, asymmetries may develop,
less sleep signs
Which anti-biotic can cause seizures which are unresponsive to AED's?
- correct answer amoxycillin
What is the unit of current?
- correct answer Ampere
Amygdalar temp lobe sz can have ___________ and ________ hallucinations
- correct answer olfactory; gustatory
ALS has normal EEG until weakness makes it harder to breathe, so the EEG then has ______ ________
- correct answer generalized slowing (hypoxia)
_________ is x-ray with contrast media
- correct answer angiography
, __________ amnesia is loss of memory for periods of time following accident
- correct answer anterograde
Antihistamines commonly cause what changes in the EEG at the therapeutic levels?
- correct answer increased theta/beta
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), haloperidol (haldol), clozapine (clozaril), and risperidone are examples of
what kind of drug?
- correct answer Antipsychotic drugs
________ is the inability to perform purposeful movement though no muscular or sensory disturbance is
present
- correct answer apraxia
Where is the aqueduct of sylvius located?
- correct answer between the third to fourth ventricle
Which Brodmann's area is the premotor area?
- correct answer Area 6
Which Brodmann's area is the primary visual area (most forms walls of deep calcarine sulcus)?
- correct answer Area 17
Which two Brodmann's area is the visual association areas?
- correct answer Area 18 and Area 19
Which Brodmann's area is the primary auditory area?
- correct answer Area 41
__________ is a congenital anomaly when the hindbrain is displaced through the foramen magnum.
- correct answer Arnold-Chiari
