ABRET-EEG Exams Questions and
Answers- Updated / Graded A+
AGNOSIA - -the inability to recognize familiar objects.
-APRAXIA - -DIFFICULTY WITH MOTOR PLANNING TO PERFORM TASKS OR
MOVEMENTS (YOUR BRAIN KNOWS BUT IT CANT CARRY OUT)
-HOW OFTEN DOES OSHA CHECK LEAKAGE OF CURRENT - -SEMIANNUALLY
-WHAT KIND OF SEIZURE BEGINS WITH THE HEAD AND EYES TURNING TO
ONE SIDE - -ADVERSIVE SEIZURE
-WHAT DYSFUNCTION IS INDICATED BY THE PRESENCE OF UNILATERAL
BABINSKI SIGNS - -PYRAMIDAL TRACT DYSFUNCTION
-WHAT IS THE UNILATERAL BABINSKI SIGNS - -WHEN A DOCTOR STROKES
THE FOOT TO SEE THE RETRACTION OF INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES
-IF A PATIENT HAS A STROKE INVOLVING BASILAR ARTERY, WHAT CLINICAL
SIGNS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEEN - -DIPLOPIA
-WHAT IS DIPLOPIA - -DOUBLE VISION
-BEST DESCRIBES A NON CRITICAL INFECTIOUS INSTRUMENT - -HAS
CONTACT WITH INTACT SKIN
-NEURO CUTANEOUS INVOLVEMENT syndrome - -STURGE WEBBER SYNDROME
-WHAT ARE NEURO CUTANEOUS SYNDROMES - -DISORDERS THAT AFFECT
THE BRAIN, SPINAL CORD, ORGANS, SKIN, AND BONES. THE DISEASES ARE
,LIFELONG CONDITIONS THAT CAN CAUSE TUMORS TO GROW IN THESE AREAS.
THEY CAN ALSO CAUSE OTHER PROBLEMS SUCH AS HEARING LOSS, SEIZURES,
AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS.
-A LARGE LESION AT THE OPTIC CHIASM CAUSES WHAT - -COMPLETE VISUAL
LOSS
-HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA - -LOSS OF THE LEFT OR RIGHT VISUAL FIELD
IN BOTH EYES
-USED TO TREAT INFANTILE SPASMS - -ACTH (ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC
HORMONE)
-MAY BE INDICATED BY THE PRESENCE OF BLOOD IN THE CEREBROSPINAL
FLUID - -SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE
-WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BLOOD VESSELS IS MOST FREQUENTLY
INVOLVED IN STROKES - -MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY
-USED IN TREATMENT OF GTC SEIZURES AND COMMONLY IN ABSENCE
EPILEPSY TREATMENT - -ETHOSUXIMIDE
-WHCIH OF THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED IN THE HISTORY - -
PATIENT HAD DIALYSIS THIS MORNING
-WHICH KIND OF TUMOR IS LEAST LIKELY TO CAUSE EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY
IN EEG - -PITUITARY ADENOMA
-IN THE EEG LABORATORY THE MAJOR CONCERN FOR TRANSMISSION ON
INFECTION IS THROUGH - -BLOOD
, -IN EVALUATING ABNORMAL EEG DISCHARGES IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO
DOCUMENT - -LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MOVEMENTS
-PROXIMAL VS DISTAL - -PROXIMAL IS NEAR TO AND DISTAL IS FAR
-CREUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE EEG PATTERN - -PERIODIC SHARP WAVES
-IMPEDANCE CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS - -RESISTANCE TO ALTERNATING
CURRENT
-MOST PROMINENT CLINICAL FEATURE OF DILANTIN TOXICITY - -ATAXIA
-CHANGES IN PERSONALITY IS FROM WHAT LOBE OF THE BRAIN - -FRONTAL
LOBE
-ACTH TREATS WHAT - -INFANTILE SPASMS
-PATIENT WITH RIGHT HEMIPARESIS MOST LIKELY HAS A LESION TO WHAT
LOBE - -LEFT FRONTAL LOBE
-SCOTOMA IS - -AREA OF VISION LOSS
-USED TO LOCALIZE SITE OF SEIZURE ONSET BY LOOKING FOR AREA OF
HYPERFUSION - -ICTAL SPECT
-ACRONYM USED TO DESCRIBE DISTINCTIVE EEG WAVES OR COMPLEXES
THAT OCCUR BETWEEN SEIZURES AND ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM
BACKGROUND ACTIVITY - -IEDS (INTERICTAL EPILEPTIFORM DISCHARGES)
-CABAL NERVE STIMULATORS ARE USED TO TREAT - -SEIZURES AND
DEPRESSION
Answers- Updated / Graded A+
AGNOSIA - -the inability to recognize familiar objects.
-APRAXIA - -DIFFICULTY WITH MOTOR PLANNING TO PERFORM TASKS OR
MOVEMENTS (YOUR BRAIN KNOWS BUT IT CANT CARRY OUT)
-HOW OFTEN DOES OSHA CHECK LEAKAGE OF CURRENT - -SEMIANNUALLY
-WHAT KIND OF SEIZURE BEGINS WITH THE HEAD AND EYES TURNING TO
ONE SIDE - -ADVERSIVE SEIZURE
-WHAT DYSFUNCTION IS INDICATED BY THE PRESENCE OF UNILATERAL
BABINSKI SIGNS - -PYRAMIDAL TRACT DYSFUNCTION
-WHAT IS THE UNILATERAL BABINSKI SIGNS - -WHEN A DOCTOR STROKES
THE FOOT TO SEE THE RETRACTION OF INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES
-IF A PATIENT HAS A STROKE INVOLVING BASILAR ARTERY, WHAT CLINICAL
SIGNS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEEN - -DIPLOPIA
-WHAT IS DIPLOPIA - -DOUBLE VISION
-BEST DESCRIBES A NON CRITICAL INFECTIOUS INSTRUMENT - -HAS
CONTACT WITH INTACT SKIN
-NEURO CUTANEOUS INVOLVEMENT syndrome - -STURGE WEBBER SYNDROME
-WHAT ARE NEURO CUTANEOUS SYNDROMES - -DISORDERS THAT AFFECT
THE BRAIN, SPINAL CORD, ORGANS, SKIN, AND BONES. THE DISEASES ARE
,LIFELONG CONDITIONS THAT CAN CAUSE TUMORS TO GROW IN THESE AREAS.
THEY CAN ALSO CAUSE OTHER PROBLEMS SUCH AS HEARING LOSS, SEIZURES,
AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS.
-A LARGE LESION AT THE OPTIC CHIASM CAUSES WHAT - -COMPLETE VISUAL
LOSS
-HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA - -LOSS OF THE LEFT OR RIGHT VISUAL FIELD
IN BOTH EYES
-USED TO TREAT INFANTILE SPASMS - -ACTH (ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC
HORMONE)
-MAY BE INDICATED BY THE PRESENCE OF BLOOD IN THE CEREBROSPINAL
FLUID - -SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE
-WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BLOOD VESSELS IS MOST FREQUENTLY
INVOLVED IN STROKES - -MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY
-USED IN TREATMENT OF GTC SEIZURES AND COMMONLY IN ABSENCE
EPILEPSY TREATMENT - -ETHOSUXIMIDE
-WHCIH OF THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED IN THE HISTORY - -
PATIENT HAD DIALYSIS THIS MORNING
-WHICH KIND OF TUMOR IS LEAST LIKELY TO CAUSE EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY
IN EEG - -PITUITARY ADENOMA
-IN THE EEG LABORATORY THE MAJOR CONCERN FOR TRANSMISSION ON
INFECTION IS THROUGH - -BLOOD
, -IN EVALUATING ABNORMAL EEG DISCHARGES IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO
DOCUMENT - -LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MOVEMENTS
-PROXIMAL VS DISTAL - -PROXIMAL IS NEAR TO AND DISTAL IS FAR
-CREUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE EEG PATTERN - -PERIODIC SHARP WAVES
-IMPEDANCE CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS - -RESISTANCE TO ALTERNATING
CURRENT
-MOST PROMINENT CLINICAL FEATURE OF DILANTIN TOXICITY - -ATAXIA
-CHANGES IN PERSONALITY IS FROM WHAT LOBE OF THE BRAIN - -FRONTAL
LOBE
-ACTH TREATS WHAT - -INFANTILE SPASMS
-PATIENT WITH RIGHT HEMIPARESIS MOST LIKELY HAS A LESION TO WHAT
LOBE - -LEFT FRONTAL LOBE
-SCOTOMA IS - -AREA OF VISION LOSS
-USED TO LOCALIZE SITE OF SEIZURE ONSET BY LOOKING FOR AREA OF
HYPERFUSION - -ICTAL SPECT
-ACRONYM USED TO DESCRIBE DISTINCTIVE EEG WAVES OR COMPLEXES
THAT OCCUR BETWEEN SEIZURES AND ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM
BACKGROUND ACTIVITY - -IEDS (INTERICTAL EPILEPTIFORM DISCHARGES)
-CABAL NERVE STIMULATORS ARE USED TO TREAT - -SEIZURES AND
DEPRESSION
