Neurology

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

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

3. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

4. Fine tremor is found in:

5. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

6. Titubation is classically seen in:

7. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

9. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

10. Lithium is not used in:

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

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

13. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

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

15. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

16. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

17. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

26. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

28. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

29. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

30. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

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

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

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

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

36. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

38. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

39. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

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

43. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

44. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

46. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

47. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

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

49. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

50. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

51. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

52. Miosis is found in all except:

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

54. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

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

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

58. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

59. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

61. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

62. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

63. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

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

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

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

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

69. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

70. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

71. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

72. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

73. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

75. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

76. Sensory involvement is not found in:

77. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

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

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

80. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

81. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

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

84. Anterior horn cell disease is:

85. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

86. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

88. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

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

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

92. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

93. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

95. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

96. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

97. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

98. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

100. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

101. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

102. The reversible cause of dementia is:

103. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

104. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

105. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

107. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

109. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

110. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

111. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

112. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

113. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

115. All of the following produce meningism except:

116. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

117. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

118. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

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

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

121. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

122. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

123. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

125. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

126. Xenophobia is the fear of:

127. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

128. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

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

131. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

132. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

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

134. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

136. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

138. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

140. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

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

143. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

145. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

146. Amantadine does not produce:

147. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

148. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

149. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

150. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

151. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

152. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

153. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

155. The dermatome at the nipple is:

156. Migraine is not associated with:

157. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

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

159. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

160. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

162. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

163. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

165. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

167. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

169. Xanthopsia is found in:

170. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

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

173. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

174. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

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

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

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

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

179. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

180. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

181. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

182. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

183. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

185. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

187. All of the following produce mono neuritis multiplex except:

188. Ptosis is absent in:

189. Posterior column lesion will have:

190. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

192. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

194. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

196. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

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

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

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

200. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

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

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

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

205. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

206. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

208. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

209. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

211. A cataract is not characteristic of:

212. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

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

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

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

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

218. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

219. Flapping tremor is not found in:

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

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