Neurology

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

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

3. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

4. Romberg’s sign is present in:

5. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

7. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

8. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

10. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

13. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

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

17. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

19. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

21. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

23. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

25. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

26. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

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

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

30. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

31. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

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

34. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

35. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

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

37. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

38. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

39. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

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

42. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

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

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

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

47. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

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

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

50. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

51. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

52. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

54. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

55. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

56. Xanthopsia is found in:

57. Fine tremor is found in:

58. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

60. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

69. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

70. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

72. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

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

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

76. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

77. Migraine is not associated with:

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

79. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

80. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

81. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

83. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

84. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

85. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

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

88. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

90. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

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

93. The reversible cause of dementia is:

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

95. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

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

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

99. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

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

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

102. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

104. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

106. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

107. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

109. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

111. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

112. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

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

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

115. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

116. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

117. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

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

120. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

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

123. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

124. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

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

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

128. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

129. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

130. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

131. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

132. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

133. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

135. All of the following may produce syncope except:

136. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

138. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

140. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

142. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

143. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

144. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

146. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

147. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

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

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

151. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

152. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

154. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

156. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

157. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

159. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

160. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

161. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

162. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

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

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

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

167. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

168. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

169. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

170. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

171. Ptosis is absent in:

172. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

173. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

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

176. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

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

178. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

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

181. Anterior horn cell disease is:

182. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

183. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

186. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

187. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

188. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

189. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

190. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

191. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

192. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

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

194. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

196. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

197. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

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

200. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

201. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

203. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

205. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

206. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

208. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

209. Posterior column lesion will have:

210. Amantadine does not produce:

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

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

213. Miosis is found in all except:

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

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

216. All of the following produce meningism except:

217. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

218. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

219. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

220. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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