Neurology

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

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

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

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

5. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

7. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

8. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

10. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

11. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

12. Xanthopsia is found in:

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

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

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

16. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

18. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

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

21. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

22. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

24. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

26. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

28. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

29. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

30. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

31. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

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

33. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

34. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

35. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

36. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

37. The dermatome at the nipple is:

38. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

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

41. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

42. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

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

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

46. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

47. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

48. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

49. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

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

52. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

54. Migraine is not associated with:

55. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

56. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

58. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

60. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

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

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

64. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

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

67. All of the following may produce syncope except:

68. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

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

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

72. Flapping tremor is not found in:

73. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

75. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

76. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

78. Ptosis is absent in:

79. Xenophobia is the fear of:

80. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

82. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

83. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

85. The reversible cause of dementia is:

86. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

91. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

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

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

95. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

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

97. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

99. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

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

102. Miosis is found in all except:

103. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

105. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

107. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

108. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

111. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

113. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

114. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

115. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

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

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

119. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

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

122. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

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

125. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

134. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

136. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

138. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

139. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

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

141. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

143. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

145. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

147. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

148. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

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

151. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

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

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

155. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

157. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

158. Anterior horn cell disease is:

159. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

161. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

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

164. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

166. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

167. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

169. Amantadine does not produce:

170. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

171. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

172. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

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

175. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

176. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

178. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

179. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

180. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

181. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

182. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

183. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

185. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

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

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

188. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

190. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

191. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

193. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

194. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

195. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

197. Astasia·abasia is known as:

198. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

200. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

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

203. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

205. Neck rigidity is not found in:

206. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

207. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

208. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

209. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

210. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

212. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

213. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

215. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

217. Lithium is not used in:

218. All of the following produce meningism except:

219. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

221. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is: