Neurology

1. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

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

4. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

5. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

7. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

9. Ptosis is absent in:

10. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

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

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

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

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

15. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

17. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

18. Romberg’s sign is present in:

19. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

21. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

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

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

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

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

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

28. Xanthopsia is found in:

29. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

30. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

32. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

33. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

34. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

35. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

37. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

38. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

39. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

40. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

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

42. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

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

45. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

47. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

48. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

49. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

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

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

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

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

55. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

58. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

59. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

60. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

62. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

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

65. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

66. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

67. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

69. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

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

72. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

73. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

75. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

76. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

77. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

80. The reversible cause of dementia is:

81. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

83. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

84. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

85. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

86. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

88. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

89. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

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

91. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

92. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

93. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

95. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

96. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

97. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

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

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

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

102. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

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

105. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

106. ‘Hippus’ is:

107. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

109. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

110. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

111. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

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

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

115. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

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

118. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

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

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

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

124. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

125. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

127. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

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

130. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

131. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

133. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

134. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

135. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

136. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

137. Amantadine does not produce:

138. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

139. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

140. Which is not a PRION disease?

141. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

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

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

144. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

145. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

150. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

151. Sensory involvement is not found in:

152. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

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

154. Neck rigidity is not found in:

155. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

157. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

158. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

159. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

161. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

162. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

164. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

165. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

166. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

168. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

169. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

171. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

172. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

174. Fine tremor is found in:

175. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

176. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

178. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

180. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

182. All of the following may produce syncope except:

183. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

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

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

187. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

188. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

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

191. Lithium is not used in:

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

193. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

194. Miosis is found in all except:

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

196. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

197. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

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

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

200. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

201. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

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

204. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

206. Migraine is not associated with:

207. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

208. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

209. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

211. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

214. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

216. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

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

219. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

221. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in: