Neurology

1. ‘Railroad track’ calcification in X-ray skull is found in:

2. Which of the following is not a test for cortical sensory function?

3. All of the following are recognised lithium toxicity except:

4. Bromocriptine is used in all of the following except:

5. Wrist drop is commonly seen in neuropathy induced by:

6. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

7. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

8. Heerfordt’s syndrome is uveo-parotid fever with cranial nerve palsy, and is seen in:

9. ‘Organic brain syndrome’ may be produced by:

10. Which of the following does not produce wasting of small muscles of hands?

11. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

12. Which of the following is a homologue of Hoffman’s sign of upper extremity?

13. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

14. Albumino-cytological dissociation is not a feature of:

15. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

16. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

17. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

18. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

19. In monoplegia, usually, the site of lesion lies in:

20. A cataract is not characteristic of:

21. Fine tremor is found in:

22. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

23. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

24. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

25. The dermatome at the nipple is:

26. The reversible cause of dementia is:

27. EEG findings showing slow waves, spikes and ‘burst suppression’ are characteristic of:

28. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

29. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

30. ‘Candle gutterings’ on the walls of the ventricles are seen in CT scan in:

31. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

32. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

33. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

34. The commonest cause of convulsion in a child (2-12 yrs) is:

35. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

36. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

37. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

38. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

39. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

40. Which is not characteristic of the lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg’s syndrome)?

41. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

42. Which of the following is not an antiplatelet drug?

43. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

44. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

45. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

46. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

47. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

48. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

49. Ptosis associated with diplopia and diminished movement of eyeball is due to:

50. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

51. Reversible ischaemic neurological deficit (RIND) usually recovers within:

52. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

53. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

54. Which is not a PRION disease?

55. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

56. Among the following, which is the most common adult muscular dystrophy?

57. Café au lait spots are found in all except:

58. Neck rigidity may be absent in the presence of:

59. Neurofibromatosis leads to an increased risk of having all of the following except:

60. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

61. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

62. In health, intracranial calcification may be seen in all except:

63. In trochlear nerve palsy, the patient complains of diplopia while:

64. The use of which can lead to the development of paranoid psychosis?

65. Xenophobia is the fear of:

66. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

67. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

68. Which of the following is not included within ‘motor functions’?

69. “‘Bull’s eye maculopathy’ is characteristic toxicity of:

70. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

71. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

72. Myotonia dystrophica has all of the following morphological features except:

73. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

74. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

75. Which is not true in Korsakoff’s syndrome?

76. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

77. Horner’s syndrome includes all of the following except:

78. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

79. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

80. Brushfield’s spots in iris are seen in:

81. Which of the following is not a feature of parkinsonism?

82. Which of the following does not produce pure motor paraplegia?

83. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

84. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

85. Which of the following is false in Gerstmann’s syndrome?

86. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

87. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

88. MRI is preferred over CT scan of brain in all except:

89. Anterior horn cell disease is:

90. Which of the following does not produce thickened peripheral nerves?

91. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are all except:

92. The presence of acanthocytosis of RBC, retinitis pigmentosa and ataxia is suggestive of:

93. Romberg’s sign is present in:

94. All of the following produce meningism except:

95. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

96. Xanthopsia is found in:

97. CSF is absorbed by arachnoid villi which are mainly present in:

98. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

99. Significant loss of vision in a hypertensive patient may be due to all except:

100. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

101. ‘Hippus’ is:

102. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

103. The most common site of hypertensive intracranial bleeding is:

104. Patient with Down’s syndrome may be complicated by all except:

105. Perforating ulcer in the sole of foot is found in all except:

106. ‘India ink preparation’ in CSF helps in the diagnosis of:

107. Which of the following is not a part of Miller-Fisher syndrome?

108. In lathyrism.. the toxin responsible for the development of neuroparalysis is:

109. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

110. Charcot (neuropathic) joint is a recognised complication of all except:

111. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

112. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

113. Flapping tremor is not found in:

114. All are the complications of oral contraceptive pills except:

115. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

116. Which of the following is not included in the triad of tuberous sclerosis?

117. Which group of muscles are almost never affected in polymyositis?

118. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

119. Carbamazepine is used in all of the following except:

120. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

121. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

122. Which is not included under ‘craniovertebral anomaly’?

123. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

124. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

125. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

126. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

127. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

128. Migraine is not associated with:

129. Sensory involvement is not found in:

130. All of the following may cause peripheral neuropathy except:

131. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

132. Korsakoff’s psychosis does not have the feature like:

133. Oculomotor nerve palsy with a spared pupil is classically seen in:

134. Which of the following is false regarding Eaton-Lambert syndrome?

135. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

136. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

137. Which of the following is not a feature of UMN palsy?

138. Weber’s syndrome is crossed hemiplegia with the involvement of:

139. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

140. “Locked-in syndrome’ occurs in lesions of:

141. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

142. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

143. Limb-girdle type myopathy inherits the disease as:

144. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

145. Which of the following does not produce pseudobulbar palsy?

146. Which of the following occurs earliest in diphtheritic neuropathy?

147. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

148. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

149. The lobe of the brain primarily affected in herpes simplex encephalitis is:

150. All are true regarding Alzheimer’s disease except:

151. The most common lacunar syndrome in clinical practice is:

152. Crossed hemiplegia indicates that the site of lesion is in:

153. The drug of choice in obsessive-compulsive psychosis is:

154. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

155. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

156. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

157. Management of choice in Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

158. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

159. Chromosomal anomaly associated with Alzheimer’s disease is:

160. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

161. Amantadine does not produce:

162. All of the following may develop into chorea except:

163. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

164. Which is not a symptom of raised intracranial tension?

165. Right middle cerebral artery territory infarction usually does not feature:

166. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

167. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

168. True hypertrophy of muscles is found in all except:

169. Ocular bobbing is often diagnostic of bilateral damage of:

170. Cerebral oedema induced by CVA should not be treated by:

171. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

172. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

173. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

174. The most consistent early physical sign evoked in a cerebellopontine angle tumour is:

175. Serum creatine kinase (CK) level is not raised in:

176. Familial periodic paralysis may be seen in all except:

177. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

178. The root value of ‘Plantar response’ is:

179. Regarding subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), all are true except:

180. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

181. Collet-Siccard syndrome affects the following cranial nerves:

182. Titubation is classically seen in:

183. Which of the following is false in subacute combined degeneration?

184. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

185. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

186. Which is not a recognized feature of cerebellar dysfunction?

187. Cherry red spot in fundoscopy is characteristic of all except:

188. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

189. The site of lesion in Korsakoff’s psychosis is:

190. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

191. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

192. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

193. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

194. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

195. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

196. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

197. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

198. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

199. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

200. Which of the following does not produce wasting of small muscles of hands?

201. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

202. Which of the following is false in cluster headache?

203. Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) stamps the process as:

204. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

205. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

206. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

207. All are seen in Alzheimer’s disease except:

208. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

209. A patient with a history of diplopia, dysarthria, dizziness and ataxia suddenly becomes unconscious. The most probable diagnosis is:

210. All of the following may develop into endocrine myopathy except:

211. Eaton-Lambert syndrome is characterized by all of the following except:

212. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

213. Fear of relapse in cancer survivors is known as:

214. Delayed relaxation of ankle jerk is seen in all except:

215. Astasia·abasia is known as:

216. In the setting of puerperium, which of the following is most common in producing neuro deficit?

217. Which of the following does not fit in ‘Ramsay Hunt’ syndrome?

218. The drug most beneficial in enuresis of a 10-year-old boy is:

219. Neck rigidity is not found in:

220. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

221. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except: