Neurology

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

2. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

3. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

4. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

12. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

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

15. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

16. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

18. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

23. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

25. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

26. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

27. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

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

30. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

31. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

32. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

33. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

34. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

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

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

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

39. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

41. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

43. Amantadine does not produce:

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

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

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

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

48. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

51. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

52. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

54. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

55. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

57. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

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

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

61. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

62. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

63. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

64. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

65. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

66. Migraine is not associated with:

67. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

69. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

70. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

71. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

73. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

74. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

76. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

77. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

79. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

81. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

83. Fine tremor is found in:

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

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

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

87. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

88. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

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

91. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

92. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

96. A cataract is not characteristic of:

97. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

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

99. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

100. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

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

103. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

104. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

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

107. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

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

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

110. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

112. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

113. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

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

116. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

118. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

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

120. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

121. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

122. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

123. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

124. All of the following may produce syncope except:

125. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

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

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

129. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

130. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

131. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

133. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

134. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

135. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

138. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

139. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

140. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

141. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

142. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

143. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

145. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

146. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

148. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

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

150. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

151. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

153. The reversible cause of dementia is:

154. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

155. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

156. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

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

159. Xenophobia is the fear of:

160. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

162. Flapping tremor is not found in:

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

164. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

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

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

168. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

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

171. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

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

173. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

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

176. Posterior column lesion will have:

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

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

179. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

181. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

184. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

185. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

186. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

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

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

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

191. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

192. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

193. Miosis is found in all except:

194. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

196. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

197. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

198. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

199. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

200. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

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

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

204. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

206. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

207. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

209. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

210. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

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

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

214. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

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

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

218. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

219. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

220. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

221. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from: