RED- Questions

Question 1

Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) (Janz)

Answer 1

Facts about JME:

• Epilepsy of janz
• Occurs early in the morning
• 4 to 5 hz generalized spike and wave
• 12 to 18 years of age

Question 2

Partial Seizure Disorder

Answer 2

Anterior Temporal Spike focus

Question 3

Complex Partial

Answer 3

Facts about Complex Partial:

• EEG important during sleep
• Deja Vu
• Automatisms( unconscious behavior: lip smacking) and impaired consciousness
• Temporal Rhythmic Theta activity

Question 4

GTC

Answer 4

Tonic phase- Generalized voltage suppression and muscle artifact
1. low voltage rhythmic beta
Clonic phase- generalized rhythmic spike and slow wave
postictal- generalized slowing

Question 5

Benign Rolandic Epilepsy

Answer 5

Rolandic Epilepsy

Benign Childhood epilepsy with Central/Temporal spikes BCECTS

Question 6

Absence Seizure

Answer 6

15 seconds average

Normal activity postictal

Question 7

Temporal Epileptiform Discharges

Answer 7

Most common EEG correlate with epileptic aura

Question 8

Electrographic seizure

Answer 8

characterized by episodic rhythmic activity

Question 9

Todd’s Paralysis

Answer 9

Post ictal, loss of ability to move post seizure

Question 10

Adversive seizure

Answer 10

Partial- Neck, head or eyes moving to one side

Question 11

Febrile seizure

Answer 11

Seizure triggered by high blood temperature

- age related

Question 12

Gelastic Epilepsy

Answer 12

Laughing

-hypothalamic hamartoma

Question 13

Temporal Lobe seizure

Answer 13

These effect 60%

Question 14

Right Frontal Lobe Seizure

Answer 14

Deviation of head and eyes
- Not to be confused with a frontal lobe tumor-
causes personality changes.

Question 15

Brainstem

Answer 15

Medulla, Pons, Midbrain

Question 16

Meninges

Answer 16

Dura, Arachnoid, Pia Mater

Question 17

Subarachnoid Space

Answer 17

Space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) between the arachnoid and pia.

• CSF is produced mainly by a structure called the choroid plexus in the lateral, third and fourth ventricles
• CSF also called CSF xanthochromic

Question 18

Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Answer 18

postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe

Question 19

Primary Motor Cortex

Answer 19

Brodmann’s Area

Question 20

Olfactory Nerve

Answer 20

Nerve type- sensory

Function- Smell

Question 21

Optic Nerve

Answer 21

Nerve type- Sensory

Function- Vision

Question 22

Oculomotor

Answer 22

Nerve Type- Motor

Funtion- Most eye movement

Question 23

Trochlear

Answer 23

Nerve type-motor

Function- Moves eyes

Question 24

Trigeminal

Answer 24

Nerve type- Both

Funtion- Face sensation, mastication

Question 25

Abducens

Answer 25

Nerve type- Motor

Abducts the eye

Question 26

Facial nerve

Answer 26

Nerve type- both

Funtion- Facial expression, taste