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The most common form of local or localization-related partial seizures
in adults:
- Temporal
- Parietal
- Occipital
- Frontal – Correct Answer - A. Temporal
What is the cause of Wernicke's encephalopathy?
- Alcoholism
- Trauma
- Acute intoxication
- Thiamine deficiency – Correct Answer - D. Thiamine deficiency
Which of the following is most characteristic of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease?
- Bradykinesia
- Myoclonus
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- Hemiparesis – Correct Answer - B. Myoclonus (Twitching)
CJD- a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder believed to be caused by an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein known as the prion protein.
Which of the following tumors is LEAST likely to cause epileptiform activity in an EEG?
- Metastic carcinoma
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Pituitary adenoma
- Astrocytoma – Correct Answer - C. Pituitary adenoma
b/c too deep in brain like
In children, most intracranial tumors are found in:
- optic chiasm
- temporal lobes
- posterior fossa
- frontal lobes – Correct Answer - C. posterior fossa
Changes in personality are most likely associated with tumors of the :
- occipital lobe
- frontal lobe
- parietal lobe
- temporal lobe – Correct Answer - B. frontal lobe 2 / 4
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- Complex partial to generalized
- Absence to tonic clonic
- West Syndrome to Lennox-Gastaut
- Rolandic to absence – Correct Answer - D. Rolandic to absence
What is the value of EEG in psychiatric disorders?
- Rule out seizures
- Evaluate effectiveness of medication
- Diagnose psychiatric disorder
- Rule out brain tumor – Correct Answer - A. Rule out seizures
Beginning in adolescence, several members of the same family developed progressive instability, ataxia ,and the inability to walk.Which of the following best describes this condition?
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
- Rheumatic fever
- Cystic fibrosis – Correct Answer - B. Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
The onset of West syndrome is most likely to occur at age:
- 5 years
- 12 years
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- 18 years – Correct Answer - C. 4 months
What is the most common ictal correlate of tonic seizures?
- Paroxysmal fast activity
- Spike and slow wave
- Rhythmic theta
- Delta – Correct Answer - A. Paroxysmal fast activity
Thiamine deficiency:
- Hyponatremia
- Hyperglycemia
- Wernicke's syndrome
- Wilson's disease – Correct Answer - C. Wernicke's syndrome
What is precocious puberty associated with?
- fornix
- hippocampus
- hypothalamus
- lateral geniculate body – Correct Answer - C. hypothalamus
What is gelastic epilepsy characterized by?
- Reading
- Talking
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