Epilepsy Quiz
2. True or False -- Women with epilepsy should not have children.
3. Which of the following people had epilepsy?
a. Beethoven
b. Thomas Edison
c. Julius Caesar
d. all of the above
4. Which of the following people had epilepsy?
a. Robert Louis Stevenson
b. Charles Dickens
c. Agatha Christie
d. all of the above
5. True or False -- Everyone who has epilepsy was born with it.
6. True or False -- If you don't have epilepsy by the time you're an adult, you will never have it.
7. True or False -- There is a type of brain surgery that can cure some types of epilepsy.
8. True or False -- Brain surgery for epilepsy is an experimental procedure.
9. True or False -- Brain surgery is the last resort for treating epilepsy.
10. True or False -- People with epilepsy are crazy.
11. True or false -- Patients with epilepsy who are still having seizures should see a neurologist
who specializes in epilepsy.
12. True or false -- Epilepsy is a rare condition.
13. True or false -- People with epilepsy need to put up with the side effects of the medications to
keep their seizures controlled.
14. True or false -- There is a device that can be implanted under the skin that patients can use to
stop a seizure when they feel one coming on.
15. True or false -- Epilepsy is contagious.
16. True or false -- People with epilepsy are possessed by the devil.
17. True or false -- Dilantin is the safest epilepsy medication.
18. True or false -- A head injury can cause epilepsy 10 years later.
19. True or false -- People who have had a stroke can develop epilepsy years later.
20. True or false -- 90% of people with epilepsy have a normal IQ or higher.
21. True or False-- A comprehensive epilepsy center is a program staffed by epileptologists, neurosurgeons, psychologists, nurses, technologists and other personnel with special training and experience in the treatment of epilepsy. This specialized epilepsy center is equipped to provide thorough diagnostic and treatment services primarily or exclusively to people with intractable epilepsy, including complex, invasive neurodiagnostic monitoring and a broad range of surgical procedures for epilepsy.
22. True or False -- Saint. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City houses the Mid America Brain & Stroke Institute Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. This regional referral center is under the leadership of epileptologists John Croom, MD, PhD, and Lizbeth de Padua, MD, two of a small number of neurologists in the region that are fellowship-trained in the subspecialty of epilepsy.
Bonus Question for Kansas/Missouri residents
Which of the following hospitals has a comprehensive epilepsy program?
a. KU Medical Center
b. St. Luke's Hospital
c. Research Medical Center
d. all of the above
Answers 1. F, 2. F, 3. D, 4.D, 5.F, 6.F, 7.T, 8.F, 9.F, 10.F,11.T, 12.F, 13.F, 14.T, 15.F, 16.F, 17.F, 18.T, 19.T, 20.T , 21.T , 22. T Bonus=B