Neurology

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

2. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

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

4. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

5. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

6. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

7. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

8. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

9. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

11. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

12. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

13. Which of the following is not a human ‘Prion’ disease?

14. The reversible cause of dementia is:

15. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

16. Xanthopsia is found in:

17. A cataract is not characteristic of:

18. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

19. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

21. Xenophobia is the fear of:

22. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

23. All are ‘Calpain’ -associated. diseases except:

24. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

25. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

26. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

28. All of the following produce meningism except:

29. Pronator sign, lizard tongue and hung-up deep reflex are found in:

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

31. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

32. Ptosis is absent in:

33. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

34. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

36. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

38. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

40. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

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

42. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

43. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

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

46. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

47. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome has all the following features except:

48. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57. Which is not a PRION disease?

58. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

59. Flapping tremor is not found in:

60. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

62. Cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy does not include:

63. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

65. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

67. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

69. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

71. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

72. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

74. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

75. Drug-induced myopathy may result from all except:

76. Fine tremor is found in:

77. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

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

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

80. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

81. Amantadine does not produce:

82. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

84. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

85. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

87. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

88. Which is not a manifestation of normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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

90. Posterior column lesion will have:

91. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

92. The presence of Babinski’s sign with loss of ankle jerk is found in all except:

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

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

95. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

97. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

98. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

100. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

102. Lithium is not used in:

103. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

105. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

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

108. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

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

110. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

111. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

112. Anterior horn cell disease is:

113. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

114. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

115. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

116. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

117. Migraine is not associated with:

118. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

119. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

121. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

122. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

124. In cerebral malaria, which of the following should not be given?

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

126. ‘Paraplegia in flexion’ may have all of the following except:

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

128. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

129. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

130. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

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

132. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

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

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

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

137. Sensory involvement is not found in:

138. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

139. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

140. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

141. Which of the following is false regarding etiology of benign intracranial hypertension?

142. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

144. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

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

146. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

147. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

148. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

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

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

151. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

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

154. Neck rigidity is not found in:

155. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

157. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

158. The dermatome at the nipple is:

159. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

160. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

161. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

162. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

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

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

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

167. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

168. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

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

171. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

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

174. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

175. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

176. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

177. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

178. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

180. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

181. Trismus is seen in all of the following except:

182. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

184. All of the following produces ‘cord compression’ except:

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

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

187. Titubation is classically seen in:

188. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

190. Romberg’s sign is present in:

191. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

193. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

195. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

196. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

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

199. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

200. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

202. Which of the following is not associated with pes cavus?

203. Which of the following is not a feature of ‘stage of neural shock’ in hemiplegia?

204. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

205. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

207. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

208. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

209. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

210. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

211. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

212. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

214. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

215. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

217. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

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

221. Characteristic of LMN lesion is: