Neurology

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

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

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

4. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

6. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

7. Which is not a PRION disease?

8. Fine tremor is found in:

9. Thrombosis of left middle cerebral artery may give rise to:

10. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

11. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

13. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

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

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

17. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

19. A cataract is not characteristic of:

20. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

21. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

22. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

23. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

24. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

25. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

26. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

27. Refsum’s disease is associated with all except:

28. Which of the following is not a feature of syringobulbia?

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

30. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

32. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

34. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

35. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

36. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

37. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

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

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

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

42. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

43. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

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

46. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

47. Sensory involvement is not found in:

48. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

49. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

50. Anterior horn cell disease is:

51. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

52. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

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

54. Ptosis is absent in:

55. Titubation is classically seen in:

56. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

57. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

58. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

59. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

61. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

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

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

65. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

66. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

67. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

68. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

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

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

71. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

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

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

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

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

77. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

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

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

81. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

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

83. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

84. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

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

87. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

88. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

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

91. ‘On-off phenomenon’ is precipitated by:

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

93. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

94. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

95. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

96. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

98. Which does not produce hypoglycorrhachia (low CSF sugar)?

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

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

101. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

102. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

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

104. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

105. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

106. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

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

108. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

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

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

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

113. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

114. Miosis is found in all except:

115. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

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

118. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

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

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

122. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

124. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

126. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

127. In schizophrenia, a better prognosis is indicated by:

128. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

130. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

131. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

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

133. Amantadine does not produce:

134. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

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

137. Migraine is not associated with:

138. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

140. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

141. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

145. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

146. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

147. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

148. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

149. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

151. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

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

153. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

154. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

155. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

156. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

157. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

158. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

159. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

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

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

163. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

164. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

166. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

167. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

168. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

169. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

170. Lithium is not used in:

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

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

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

174. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

175. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

176. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

177. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

178. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

180. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

181. All of the following are sources of cerebral embolism except:

182. Flapping tremor is not found in:

183. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

185. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

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

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

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

190. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

191. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

192. Xanthopsia is found in:

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

194. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

195. The reversible cause of dementia is:

196. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

198. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

199. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

200. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

201. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

202. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

203. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

204. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

206. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

207. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

210. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

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

213. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

214. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

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

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

217. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

219. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

220. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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