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Lesions

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Focal slowing ( polymorphic)

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Hepatic encephalopathy

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Generalized periodic discharges with triphasic morphology

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What is the time after the seizure, but before the patient returns to baseline called?

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Post-ictal

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Define idiopathic.

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No known cause for seizures

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What type of seizure would have no change in consciousness and is of a brief duration?

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Focal aware

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Paralysis of an extremity that had focal clonic activity during a seizure is known as?

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Todd’s paralysis

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What type of seizure has twitching that moves across the body as a seizure moves across the surface of the brain?

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Jacksonian seizure

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What type of seizure has an ictal EEG that has rhythmic, synchronous beta that has increasing amplitude as the frequencies decrease and rhythmic activity that turns into spike-wave?

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Focal aware seizures

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A seizure type that has an alteration or LOC and the patient doesn’t respond to stimuli is called?

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Focal unaware

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What does the interictal activity during a focal unaware seizure look like?

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Focal sharp waves and focal slowing

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T or F: GTC seizures start with an aura.

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FALSE

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What is the tonic phase of a TC seizure?

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The flexion of extremities and muscle tension

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T or F: SE can occur with any seizure type.

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TRUE

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What is the first priority when a patient is having a seizure?

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Keeping the patient safe

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What should you not do when responding to a seizure?

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Do not put anything in the patient’s mouth

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A patient that has altered consciousness, visual disturbances, and balance problems would have signs of?

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A concussion

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When there is a loss of memory prior to an event it is known as?

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Retrograde amnesia

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A bleed that occurs in the brain on the opposite side of the skull insult is called?

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Contracoup

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A subdural hematoma is located?

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Below the dura and above the arachnoid

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A bleed located between the skull and the dura is called?

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Epidural hematoma

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T or F: Concussions typically do not have changes in the EEG associated with them.

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TRUE

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A bruise of the brain and TBI would be a?

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Contusion

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T or F: A background activity of less than 8 Hz is always abnormal for all age groups.

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FALSE

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Consistent amplitude alpha asymmetry over _____ may be clinically significant.

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50%

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With frequency asymmetries, the side with ___ frequency is more abnormal.
Lower
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Spindle coma is comprised of primarily _____ waves.
Beta waves
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Greater than 30 Hz. 2. Can accurately localize octal onset. 3. Are visible on intracranial electrodes are characteristics of?
Gamma wave
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Focal ADA is a reliable indicator of?
Focal supratentorial lesion
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T or F: EEG is not a good tool to localize a lesion.
TRUE
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FIRDA activity will show as ____ and eye movement will show as _____
In phase and out of phase
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The pattern most associated with TLE is?
TIRDA
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Discharges that have abrupt onset and sudden termination are clear from the background are known as?
Paroxysmal activity
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What paroxysmal activity is more specific for seizure diagnosis?
Spike/Spike-Wave
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A sharp has a wave duration of?
70 - 200 msec
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IED stands for?
Interictal epileptiform discharges
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Spikes recorded with maximum amplitude over the central or midtemporal electrodes are seen in?
BECTS
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What is the most common seizure type?
Temporal lobe epilepsy
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What type of seizure has the following symptoms: Auras, deja vu, and jamais vu?
MTLE
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What seizure location would have symptoms of clonic twitching, bicycling, and GTC seizures?
Frontal lobe seizures
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T or F: Frontal lobe octal and interictal activity is easy to miss using scalp electrodes.
TRUE
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Seizures that can cause visual field loss originate from?
The occipital lobe
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T or F: JME and Absence seizures are examples of idiopathic epilepsies.
TRUE
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What activation procedure induces 3 Hz spike and wave in patients that have absence seizures?
HV
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Childhood absence seizures occur in patients of what age?
Between 3 - 7 yrs of age
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A syndrome that displays repetitive eye blinking after eye closure and generalized spike-wave bursts of 4 - 6 Hz is called?
Jeavons Syndrome
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What EEG patterns may indicate that a patient has GTC seizures?
Photoparoxymal responses and generalized spike-wave
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T or F: The patient’s background activity should return to normal immediately after an event if the patient has a pseudo seizure.
TRUE
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This tracing is an example of?
3 Hz Spike and Wave
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The disorder associated with the EEG of a 1 year old male with severe intellectual disabilities and generalized seizures is?
Infantile spasms
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When would expect to see epileptiform activity in patients with JME?
Shortly after waking
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What type of seizures are characterized by loss of muscle tone?
Atonic seizures
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What does the EEG pattern with very high voltage, irregular, asynchronous delta waves with random spikes indicate?
Hypsarrhythmia
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The majority of infantile spasms patients will respond to what treatment?
ACTH
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A patient with SSW, intellectual disability, and generalized seizures may have what condition?
Lennox-Gastaut
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This disorder that occurs with sudden dysphasia in a normal, healthy 3 - 9 year old is:
Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
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Patients that have a decline in IQ, deterioration in language, and behavioral changes may have what condition?
CSWS
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What is the most common seizure disorder in infants and young children?
Febrile seizures
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What disorder occurs secondary to a measles infection?
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
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What disorder presents as progressing dementia and myoclonus, can be transmitted via tissue or medical instruments, and shows triphasic waves on EEG?
CJD
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What does SIRPIDs stand for?
Stimulus induced rhythmic periodic or ictal discharges
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What occurs most often after acute, large destructive cerebral lesions?
LPDs
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True or False: An increase in muscle activity is an indicator of octal activity.
FALSE
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What does a post-ictal EEG show after a GTC seizure?
Voltage suppression followed by low amplitude delta
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True or False: Focal aware seizures can occur without scalp EEG changes.
TRUE
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What characteristics must be met to qualify for SE?
A single epileptic seizure lasting more than 5 minutes or a series of epileptic seizures for at least 5 minutes and function is not fully regained between events
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What are gelastic seizures?
Laughing spells
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What seizure disorder has a high mortality rate if not treated promptly?
Generalized convulsive status
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Typical triphasic waves are commonly seen in _____ encephalopathy.
Hepatic
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What syndrome has the following characteristics: 1. Occurs with aspirin use in children who have fevers. 2. Burst suppression. 3. 14 and 6 Hz positive spike bursts?
Reye’s Syndrome
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EEG is very sensitive to detecting what condition?
Cerebral ischemia
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In the case of severe ischemia, an EEG would show what?
Flattening of the EEG
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What EEG patterns are associated with a coma after severe hypoxia?
* Biphasic waves * Triphasic waves * BiPLEDs * Burst suppression * Alpha coma
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SSPE is the result of what?
Chronic measles infection
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What is the main waveform seen in patients with CJD?
Triphasic waves
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At what age does Batten’s disease occur?
Late infancy/early childhood
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What is the correlation of EEG waves and the degree of dementia?
The worse the dementia, the more EEG abnormalities are seen
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What is the main characteristic of the EEG in a patient with Huntington’s Disease?
Low voltage activity
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What is the unique EEG pattern that helps diagnose anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis?
Extreme delta brush
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Medication impact on the EEG is dependent on what factors?
* The damage of the drug * The duration of exposure to the drug * Any preexisting EEG abnormalities
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Beta activity is seen primarily as an effect of which group of drugs at therapeutic levels?
Benzodiazepines
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True or False: At a therapeutic dose, valproic acid does not have an impact on the background EEG activity.
TRUE
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The EEG of a patient with severe intoxication will show what?
An increase in delta and theta
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What medications can be used for induced therapeutic hypothermia?
* Barbiturates * Propofol * Ketamine
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Which location is the EEG less able to detect tumors?
Parietal lobe
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Local polymorphic delta activity is present in the location of what condition?
Ischemic stroke
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True or False: LPDs can indicate a large brain infarction.
TRUE
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True or False: Focal slow waves are common in the elderly population.
TRUE
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What are the types of meningitis?
* Viral * Bacterial * Fungal
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A brain abscess is usually of what origin?
Bacterial
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What would you expect to see on an EEG of a patient with Reye’s Syndrome?
Increased theta and delta
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What would an EEG show on a patient with AIDS?
No specific pattern
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What is the treatment for CJD?
There is no known treatment
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The EEG for a patient with generalized anxiety disorder would show what?
Minimally slow or bordering normal variants
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What is encephalopathy?
Global brain dysfunction
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What are some patterns that can be seen in a patient with hypoxia?
* Slowing of background * FIRDA * Periodic bi or triphasic waves * Myoclonic jerks
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An infarct is defined as what?
Neuronal death due to lack of oxygen
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What occurs when a blood clot occludes an already narrowed artery?
Thrombotic ischemic stroke
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What is it called when blood spills into brain tissue from a burst vessel or artery?
Hemorrhagic stroke
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What occurs when a clot from a larger blood vessel is carried to a smaller vessel, gets stuck, and restricts or occludes blood flow?
Embolic ischemic stroke
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True or False: Sleep spindles present 2 days after a brain injury indicate a poor prognosis.
FALSE
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CJD
Progressive dementia
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benign Rolandic Epilepsy
childhood boys more than girls, seizure typically upon waking or right before falling sleep. symptoms: numbness twitching, tingling on face and tongue

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