MCQ

1) About 70% of people with epilepsy the cause is -------------a) Head trauma
b) brain tumors
c)Unknown
d) stroke

2) The major risk factor of neonatal seizures is

All the following statements are true except
a) Prematurity
b) head truma
c) Low birth weight
d) Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

3) The following Symptoms May Indicate a Seizure

Disorder
a) Periods of blackout or confused memory
b)Episodes of blank staring
c) Convulsion, with or without fever
d) All of the above

4) All the following patients are high risk for developing

recurrent seizures except
a) First seizure with a prolonged post-ictal state
b) Simple partial seizure
c) Status Epilepticus
d) Lesion on CT or MRI brain

5) The following conditions are triggering for seizure

recurrence
a) Metabolic and Electrolyte Imbalance
b) Sedative or ethanol withdrawal
c) Fever or systemic infection
d) all of the above

6) AEDs that have shown efficacy for Absence seizures

except
a) Ethosuximide
b) Lamotrigine
c) carbamazepine
d) Valproate

7) AEDs that have shown efficacy for myoclonic

seizures except
a) Clonazapam
b) Lamotrigine
c) Valporate
d) carbamazepine

8) Types of neonatal seizures include the following

types except
a) Tonic
b) Clonic
c) Tonic clonic
d) myoclonic

9) Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome is characterized by the

following manifestation except
a) childhood onset epilepsy
b) congenital malformation
c) slow spike-wave EEG
d) more than one type of epilepsy

10) Risk Factors for development of epilepsy in

febrile convulsions include the following except
a) Family history of a febrile convulsion
b) Generalized
c) Recurrent febrile seizures
d) Febrile seizure onset in first year

Answers
1) c
2) b
3) d
4) b
5) d
6) c
7) d
8) c
9) b
10) b