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This case report describes EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) findings in a 2-year-old sheep presenting with clinical signs suggestive of a chronic focal encephalopathy (ataxia, head tilt and circling) associated with lethargy and progressive weight loss. Computed tomography (CT) confirmed a single, discretely bilobate intra-axial cystic lesion within the left cerebral hemisphere, with a severe mass effect, marked deformation and displacement of the ventricular system, compression of the thalamic structures, and contralateral deviation of the median line. A solitary parasitic cyst with no lesion in the right hemisphere was subsequently confirmed at necropsy and on histopathology. Under ketamine\u2013diazepam sedation, both EEG recordings showed a continuous, delta-dominant background consistent with the anesthetic protocol. Epoch-wise asymmetry indices with bootstrap confidence intervals distinguished an unstable component (which reversed in hemispheric sign between recordings) from a reproducible one confined to the occipital derivations, where the asymmetry lay over the right hemisphere in both recordings in every band except delta. This reproducible preponderance was contralateral to the cyst, over a hemisphere in which no structural lesion was demonstrable either on imaging or at necropsy, and absolute powers indicated that it arose principally from attenuation of the signal recorded over the diseased hemisphere. These findings provide the first electrophysiological characterization of ovine coenurosis and show that in the presence of a severe mass effect, the side of the surface qEEG abnormality may not indicate the side of the lesion (an electrophysiological false localizing sign described in human patients but not previously in a ruminant). 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